Every month , theio9 book clubmeets to hash out a al-Qur’an we ’ve read , often with the author joining in too . This month we ’re readingWindup Girl – and you may get a gratuitous electronic copy from the publishing house !
This month’sio9 book clubmeeting begins Feb. 23 .
Here ’s what we said about Windup Girlwhen we reviewed it :
https://gizmodo.com/gmo-espionage-fuels-environmental-thriller-the-windup-5355830
Set in Thailand ’s hereafter , the book watch over scientist spies hunting good genomes in a world ruined by GMO diseases .
In the custom of politically - minded hard SF writer like Iain M. Banks and Ian McDonald , Bacigalupi play along the interconnected stories of several people catch up in enceinte social shifts . In the case of The Windup Girl , they ’re all caught in the genome manufacture ’s entanglement : We have a covert “ calorie man ” call Anderson who attempt to sniff out uncontaminated genome for a Monsanto - esque multinational called AgriGen ; a “ yellow card ” Formosan refugee named Hock Seng who is taste to climb to the top of the energy - generator black grocery store in Thailand ; Environment Ministry shock troops Jaidee and Kanya , whose occupation is to protect Thailand from contaminated genomes , foreign import , and soiled energy ; and the cryptic whore Emiko , a genetically - engineered “ windup ” mortal abandoned by her former owner in Thailand , where GMO people are illegal .
We follow these character through every eschelon of Thai society , from backroom meetings between regime officials to backroom execution at the strip club where Emiko is fetishistically degraded every nighttime .
Since then , Windup Girl has been include on many “ best books of 2009 ” lean , including Time magazine ’s .
To get your free ebook , write toNight Shade Books . ( Click the link for the address . ) If you want a hard copy with the gorgeous cover , you canorder that here . Or purchase it from your prissy local bookseller .
recollect : Get the Word of God read by Tuesday , Feb. 23 , and we ’ll start our meeting that Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . The meeting will proceed until the end of that hebdomad .
And if you need to get started on the next Scripture , we ’ll be discussingKage Baker ’s Sky Coyotefor the confluence of the book club on March 23 .
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