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SUMMARY:September 13th - The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
DESCRIPTION:Anderson Lake is a company man\, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thail
 and. Under cover as a factory manager\, Anderson combs Bangkok's street ma
 rkets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct\, hoping to reap the b
 ounty of history's lost calories. There\, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is th
 e Windup Girl\, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People\, 
 Emiko is not human\; instead\, she is an engineered being\, creche-grown a
 nd programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman\, but n
 ow abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by som
 e\, devils by others\, New People are slaves\, soldiers\, and toys of the 
 rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world\,
  the oil age has passed\, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues r
 un rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? W
 hat happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits\, when
  said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-hum
 an evolution?\n\nIn The Windup Girl\, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalup
 i returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Aw
 ard-winner\, Hugo Award nominee\, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award 
 nominee\, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.\n\n\nThe Win
 dup Girl was won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best novel and jointly won the 
 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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