Description
In a flooded Bangkok of the distant future, where rising seas have reshaped civilization and fossil fuels are a distant memory, corporate bio-terrorism has weaponized nature itself—creating mutant crops and engineered organisms that threaten global food supplies. When a mysterious windup girl, a genetically-engineered being created for servitude, arrives in this crumbling metropolis, she becomes entangled in a dangerous web of corporate espionage, political intrigue, and the desperate struggle for survival. Paolo Bacigalupi weaves together multiple perspectives to explore a world teetering on the edge of ecological collapse, where the line between human and machine, natural and artificial, has become dangerously blurred. This gripping speculative novel examines the consequences of unchecked corporate power, environmental devastation, and the question of what it means to be human when evolution itself has been weaponized. A haunting vision of a post-oil future where humanity's greatest innovations may also be its undoing.
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paperback
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2010
361 pages
ISBN: 9781597801584
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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