Summary
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 n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781597801584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1597801585 |
| Author: | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| Publisher: | Night Shade Books |
| Imprint: | Night Shade Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi is the award winning author of adult and young adult fiction. His work has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus award among others, and been nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. His short fiction has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and High Country News. Bacigalupi lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son.
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