Why John loves this book
This was my third or fourth time reading this book. It's obviously a favorite of mine that I come back to every few years. I love the post apocalyptic world building and how humanity has made progress in some areas yet regressed in so many more. A sober warning on messing with gene manipulation and the cycles of nature.
7 authors picked The Windup Girl as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
WINNER OF THE HUGO, NEBULA, LOCUS, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AND COMPTON CROOK AWARDS
The Windup Girl is the ground-breaking and visionary modern classic that swept the board for every major science fiction award it its year of publication.
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of…