The Windup Girl

The Robots are coming . . .

THE WINDUP GIRL
by Paolo Bacigalupi

Bacigalupi (The Water Knife) presents a grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and food economy.

Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences.
Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness.
Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score.

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. She is an engineered being, crèche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman. Now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok in a world where her kind the “New People” are regarded as soulless.