About book
The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published in September 2009. It was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by TIME magazine, and as the best science fiction book of the year in the Reference and User Services Association's 2010 Reading List. This book is a 2009 Nebula Award and a 2010 Hugo Award winner (together with China MiƩvilles The City & the City), both for best novel. This book also won the 2010 Compton Crook Award and the 2010 Locus Award for best first novel.
Plot
Anderson Lake is an economic hitman and the AgriGen Representative in Thailand. He owns a kink-spring factory trying to mass produce a revolutionary new model that will store gigajoules of energy. The factory is a cover for his real mission: discovering the location of the Thai seedbank. He leaves the running of the factory to his Chinese manager, Hock Seng, a refugee from the Malaysian purge of the ethnic Chinese. A businessman in his former life, he is plotting to regain his former glory even as he lives from day to day. He waits patiently for an opportunity to steal the kink-spring designs kept in Anderson's safe, and embezzles copiously
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Awards and honors
In September 2010, the novel won the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel category, tying with China MiƩville's The City & the City.[3] In May 2010, the novel won the Nebula Award for Best Novel.[4] In 2010, the novel won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Paolo's short stories
| Name | Year |
| "Pocketful of Dharma" | (1999) |
| "The Fluted Girl" | (2003) |
| "The People of Sand and Slag" | (2004) |
| "The Pasho" | (2004) |
| "The Calorie Man" | (2005) |
| "The Tamarisk Hunter" | (2006) |
| "Pop Squad" | (2006) |
| "Yellow Card Man" | (2006) |