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The Windup Girl (2009)

de Paolo Bacigalupi

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What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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"I'm inoculated against diseases that haven't even been released yet."

Spoken by one of the main characters, a Calorie Man who works for a multinational agribusiness, this quote aptly describe the world of The Windup Girl.

It's late 22nd century Thailand, the combustible fuel age is over, all energy is derived from labor, springs, and, essentially, calories. The western agribusinesses have destroyed most of the world's food supply, and control everything through sterile seed stock. Except in Thailand.

Bacigalupi has created such a believable world, one that is completely immersive, and yet one that does not overwhelm the story. Great SF book for/of our time. ( )
  rumbledethumps | Nov 25, 2023 |
It’s 200-ish years in the future, and the oil and coal supply have mostly collapsed. Agriculture has completely privatized, and several companies own the rights to most of the world’s food supply and sabotage their competitors with deadly blights. Anderson Lake works for an agriculture company, currently undercover in Bangkok pretending to run a kinetic energy factory. Emiko is an artificial human - a windup - designed for servitude and currently occupied as a sex worker. Kanya is high up in the environmental ministry, cracking down on businesses and importers that violate quarantine protocols, and fighting corruption in her own ranks. Hock Seng is a refugee several times over, currently working for Anderson Lake and waiting until he can cut and run. When the Thai ministry of trade decides that money is more important than ecology and declares war on the environmental ministry they, and everyone else, are caught in the middle.

Interesting ideas here, but they are already pretty dated and the plot falls very flat. Why is there no solar or wind power in this post-oil future? Despite being the title character, Emiko doesn’t really do anything until close to the end. It’s very violent and sexist and racist in that early-00s way … it clearly doesn’t agree with them but it’s still showing them to the reader. The only real thing this story has to say is about corruption, so an American author deciding to set it in SE Asia is a bad look.
I didn’t hate the story overall, but it went on too long and eventually ended up where I wished it had begun instead - Bangkok has flooded, Kanya considers her internal conflict, and Emiko is free - though I wish she had made it out of the city to the rumored encampment of other windups. ( )
  norabelle414 | Nov 14, 2023 |
The strength of this story lies in the vivid world created by the writing. Bankok feels alive and many of the environmental messages are pretty clear. Sadly the Characters have no vibrance and drag what would otherwise be a great novel down. ( )
  hubrisinmotion | Nov 14, 2023 |
I just found this dull as hell, which is saying something, because I'm concurrently two books into a trilogy of books following an Iowa farm family across a hundred years. ( )
  mmparker | Oct 24, 2023 |
This is one of those sorts I'm going to be processing for a while. While this build is frustratingly slow, I love that it's a narrative that is writing against traditional narrative structure. We get a full world-building experience and limited access to characters, so the story is fragmented, but solidly situated in time and space, which is a very experimental way of constructing a story. In all, I found myself more and more engrossed in the twists and turns of the narrative, and beyond place with the beautiful prose, which had an oral tradition like feel to it.

I'd absolutely recommend giving this one a go! Just be patient for a while. ( )
  BreePye | Oct 6, 2023 |
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It is a reasonably convincing vision of a future rendered difficult and more threatening than even our troubled present.
 
The Windup Girl embodies what SF does best of all: it remakes reality in compelling, absorbing and thought-provoking ways, and it lives on vividly in the mind.
 
But the third reason to pick up "The Windup Girl" is for its harrowing, on-the-ground portrait of power plays, destruction and civil insurrection in Bangkok.

Clearly, Paolo Bacigalupi is a writer to watch for in the future. Just don't wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasures of "The Windup Girl."
 
One of the strengths of The Windup Girl, other than its intriguing characters, is Bacigalupi's world building. You can practically taste this future Thailand he's built [...] While Bacigalupi's blending of hard science and magic realism works beautifully, the novel occasionally sags under its own weight. At a certain point, the subplots feel like tagents that needed cutting.
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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Paolo Bacigalupiautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Chong, VincentIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Davis, JonathanNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Horváth, NorbertTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lacoste, RaphaelAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lockhart, Ross E.Dissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Podaný, RichardTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Riffel, HannesÜbersetzerautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ulman, JulietEditorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Wang, EugeneDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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