Books like The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* turns the same dystopian setting that hosts his earlier works, *The Calorie Man* and *Yellow Card Man*, toward a future in which bio‑terrorism becomes a profitable corporate tool. The novel considers how this manipulation of genetic technology could push humanity toward a post‑human era, raising questions about power, profit, and the limits of biology.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Science Fiction/Cyberpunk
Authors: Paolo Bacigalupi
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