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The Windup Girl

Auteur(s): Paolo Bacigalupi
Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories.

There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.

BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Paolo Bacigalupi explains how a horrible trip to Thailand led to the idea for The Windup Girl.

©2009 Paolo Bacigalupi (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Ce que les critiques en disent

  • Hugo Award, Best Novel, 2010
  • Nebula Award, Best Novel, 2009
  • Best Books of 2009, Publishers Weekly
  • 10 Best Fiction Books of 2009, Time magazine
  • Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2009, Library Journal

"Paolo Bacigalupi's debut sci-fi novel is a stunner, especially as interpreted under the careful ministrations of narrator Jonathan Davis. The novel postulates a corrupt near-future society in Southeast Asia, where powerful corporations vie for control over rice yields by wielding bioengineered viruses as tools for profit." ( AudioFile)
" The Windup Girl will almost certainly be the most important SF novel of the year for its willingness to confront the most cherished notions of the genre, namely that our future is bright and we will overcome our selfish, cruel nature." ( Book Page)
"A classic dystopian novel likely to be short listed for the Nebula and Hugo Awards" ( SF Signal)

Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Windup Girl

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Great story, great narration, highly recommend

Listened to this title for a book club, and was very glad I did, as the richness of the world and the intricate interweaving of the character arcs left me feeling thoroughly satisfied to discuss the book at the end of it. Davis does a great job of voicing all the different characters, which helps you feel empathy for the characters throughout. Not that you need help as the characters are all so complex and well written that they seem so real, given the context of the story. I enjoyed the book from beginning to end, and was surprised more than once by a plot which was not at all predictable. #Audible1

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Fantastic world-building - but the plot sags

The Windup Girl is environmental dystopia of the highest order and also a fun fish-out-of-water romp in the vein of James Clavell - unfortunately like Clavell's lesser novels, there is a lot of scheming and trampling but not much to drive the plot forward. In the final analysis the warning sticks around after the characters and the story are long gone. But unmissable just the same. #Audible1

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Engaging voice reading and story!

Fantastic voice acting.. very wide range and engaging. great character development and detail! a great look at how food corporations would run the world and control the economy

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Get out while you can

This is the kind of story SF readers classify as "If This Keeps On." Globalism, man-made climate change, rising sea levels, GMOs, nationalism, and invasive species have all combined to create a world no one want. Thailand is on the rocks, and everyone seems to be trying to salvage the wreck. Or make sure it sinks!

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The last half is good

I found it really hard to get into and it took a long time to really get any of the characters. About halfway through, it picked up and I loved it after that. I'm the only one in my book club that finished it because everyone else got bored in the first half. The performance was okay. The volume was all over the place though. Turning it way up to hear the quiet parts and then LOUD PARTS ALL OF A SUDDEN! That was annoying. But I really enjoyed the last half of the book.

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Couldn’t do it

Not sure what this story is about? Tried so many times to listen, but I was unsuccessful. If I hadn’t purchased the book a year ago I would have returned it..... good luck.

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Still ringing in my ears and making me sweat...

A tornado of contemporary fears whipped up from timeless, conflicting priorities. Engaging, entertaining, and fascinatingly foreign and familiar, all so musical in its miseries and fictions made manifest and unbreakably real by a confluence of towering talents...

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Wish I loved it, I didn't.

I tried to like this, I tried to slog through, but nope, just didn't care for it at all. Only got a couple chapters in, it just wasn't my cuppa tea.
I liked the narrator, though. That's pretty much all I can say, it was on sale so I wasn't out a lot.

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interesting story, but hard to get engaged

it was an interesting story but slow to get to the point and not excessively engaging

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not great

started out interesting but lost interest & didn't get past chapter 20. The world the author created was unique but the characters, the storyline & relationships were unforgettable & I couldn't care less how it ends

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