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Ankur Sinha

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Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl (2009, Nightshade Books) 4 stars

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said …

Review of "The windup girl"

4 stars

In a dystopic world where cities have been/are being swallowed by the ocean, genetic modifications/viruses and the sort have killed billions in many countries and destroyed ecosystems and large corporations that provide disease resistant strains of food and tech wield far too much power, this book focuses on happenings in Thailand.

The world building is great---lots of ideas that I hadn't run into before, so it was certainly fresh. It also gets points from me for not being based in the west. I think reading the short story (the calorie man) and the novelette (the yellow card man) that came before this one would perhaps have given me a clearer idea of the world---this one sort of assumes one is familiar with it.

It does start a little slow (again, maybe it took me longer to understand the scene because I hadn't read the earlier texts) but it picked up …

reviewed War in heaven by David Zindell (Bantam spectra book)

David Zindell: War in heaven (1998, Bantam Books) 5 stars

Really enjoyed the trilogy

5 stars

I couldn't put it down---much like the other books in the Neverness universe. The story, the universe, the characters, the ideas are all complex in a way that forces you to really think about them: what if things were this way?

Thoroughly recommended.