![]() ![]() Very soon, she came upon a house made of books. ![]() Once upon a time, a little girl named Goldilocks decided to go for a walk in the forest. The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Authors What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. 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 now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. ![]() There, he encounters Emiko.Įmiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. 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. Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand.
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