The Windup Girl (Signed & Numbered Limited Edition) by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl Signed & Numbered Limited Edition to 200 Slipcased copies
Hand Signed by Paolo Bacigalupi
Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a
factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in
search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of
history’s lost calories.
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and
beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being,
grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto
businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as
soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves,
soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which
calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side
effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
What
happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism
becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of
post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most
highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.