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Paolo Bacigalupi

Auteur van The Windup Girl

38+ Werken 15,399 Leden 849 Besprekingen Favoriet van 28 leden

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Paolo Bacigalupi won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for his debut novel, The Windup Girl, which was published in 2009. His short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and his young adult novel Ship toon meer Breaker won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and was finalist for the National Book Award. His work has also appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Paolo Bacigalupi at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.

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Werken van Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl (2009) 6,231 exemplaren
Ship Breaker (2010) 3,407 exemplaren
The Water Knife (2015) 1,797 exemplaren
Pump Six and Other Stories (2008) 1,127 exemplaren
The Drowned Cities (2012) 1,106 exemplaren
The Alchemist (2011) 332 exemplaren
The Doubt Factory (2014) 312 exemplaren
The Tangled Lands (2018) 310 exemplaren
Tool of War (2017) 247 exemplaren
Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013) 212 exemplaren
The Alchemist / The Executioness (2010) — Auteur — 50 exemplaren
The Calorie Man (novelette) (2005) 30 exemplaren
The Fluted Girl (novelette) (2006) 28 exemplaren

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GROUP READ -- THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (augustus 2012)
THE WINDUP GIRL - Discussion Thread ***Possible SPOILERS*** in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (maart 2012)

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Set in a future Thailand where rising sea levels due to climate change and plagues caused by bioengineered crops and mutated pests ravage the world, Bangkok holds on with levees and water pumps to keep the city from succumbing to the sea and isolationism and the Environment Ministry to ward off plagues and control by the biotech companies and their sterile seeds. It tells the story of a biotech company employee trying to get his hands on Thailand's seed bank to exploit it along with the windup girl, the only one in Bangkok, and how their lives intersect. Really interesting book.… (meer)
 
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LisaMorr | 303 andere besprekingen | Mar 1, 2024 |
An imaginative and unique post-apocalyptic setting with a large cast of morally grey characters doing terrible things to one another. I found it fascinating.
 
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yaj70 | 303 andere besprekingen | Jan 22, 2024 |
As good as any book I've read before (about agro-terrorism, androids and Thai culture).
 
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robmartin | 303 andere besprekingen | Jan 15, 2024 |
Story: 4 / 10
Characters: 7
Setting: 10
Prose: 9

The Windup Girl started so well ... and there were so many reasons to read it: Hugo and Nebula award winner; and someone literally bought me a copy.

The unique, poetic prose and clever post-steampunk setting immerse the reader in the first few pages. The story starts off fairly strong with compelling characters and strange relationship dynamics. However, the plot loses direction in a web of tertiary story threads. At 33% completion, it was clear that the story was ultimately never going to come together. Since I'm reading through all the Nebula and Hugo award winning authors, I cannot honestly suggest you skip this book. Nevertheless, I would suggest reading one of Bacigalupi's later works: I imagine the stories would be more mature.

Tags: generipping (bio-engineering), plagues, post-steampunk, energy-efficiency, asia, androids
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Leden
15,399
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849
ISBNs
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Talen
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Favoriet
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