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In The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world he created in his Hugo-nominated short story “The Calorie Man,” with a brilliantly crafted tale of bio-engineering and corporate greed gone awry.

In a future where the oil has run out, world trade has collapsed, and bioengineered calorie plagues run rampant across the globe, AgriGen agent Anderson Lake combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of plant species thought to be extinct. There, he meets Emiko, a strange and beautiful non-human creature. Crèche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of her owners, Emiko yearns for freedom in a world where calorie companies infiltrate and manipulate governments for their own secret goals. But Emiko has secrets of her own….