Windup Girl Winner of Five Major SF Awards
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Paolo Bacigalupi is a multiple award-winning SF author whose debut THE WINDUP GIRL has been one of the most acclaimed novels in this area to appear in recent years. He also writes critically acclaimed, award-winning short stories in addition to novel length fiction. Paolo currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son,Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson
Time Magazine
An astounding novel
Interzone
Not since William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, NEUROMANCER (1984), has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much
The Washington Post
An exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences
- Cory Doctorow,
Clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
It's ridiculous how good this book is
Techland
Postmodern Bangkok springs to life in Bacigalupi's brilliant dystopian tale of culture clash, recalling the best of China Mieville and Neal Stephenson
Library Journal
The pace of the book is fast and relentless. It is a dark vision . . . As a portrait of a world far from our own but not unrecognisably so, it is finely done
Times Literary Supplement
Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: this is cyberpunk without computers
Time Magazine
Not since William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, NEUROMANCER (1984), has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much ... Paolo Bacigalupi is a writer to watch for in the future. Just don't wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasu
The Washington Post
An exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences, sordid sex, and enough technical speculation for two lesser novels
Cory Doctorow
This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year
Publishers Weekly (starred review)