The Windup Girl.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Recommended for fans of: Cyberpunk 2077
Genre: Dystopian fiction / Science fiction
First published: 2009
About the book.
In a future where climate change, rising seas and genetically engineered diseases have transformed the world, traditional fossil fuels are almost gone and food has become one of the most valuable resources on Earth.
Bangkok has survived behind enormous seawalls, protected by a government determined to preserve what remains of its independence. Beneath the surface, however, corporations, political factions and powerful organisations are competing for control of the city's future.
Anderson Lake, an economic agent searching for valuable new technology, becomes involved with Emiko, a genetically engineered woman known as a "windup". Their lives become entangled in a struggle involving biotechnology, political power and the future of humanity.
What to expect.
The Windup Girl presents a darker vision of the future, where biotechnology has become as important as computers and corporations can have enormous influence over people's lives.
Expect environmental collapse, genetic engineering, corporate power, political conflict and questions about what happens when technology advances faster than society can adapt.
If you enjoy the darker side of Cyberpunk 2077 — particularly its corporations, inequality, technological exploitation and struggle for survival — this novel offers a very different but compelling version of that future.
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