The Windup Girl (2010)
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In a future Bangkok, walled in against rising seas and kept alive by a ruthless seed bank, the world's calories are controlled by a few giant corporations. Anderson Lake poses as a factory manager while he hunts for lost food crops on behalf of one of them.
He falls for Emiko, a genetically engineered servant made to obey, who has been abandoned by her owner and is exploited in the city's back rooms. As ministries and a hidden coup move against each other, both are pulled into a fight over the country's survival.
A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel of biotechnology and collapse.
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The Windup Girl (2010)
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