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Bacigalupi, Paolo was born in 1973 in Paonia, Colorado, United States.
( Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a ...)
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. In this brand new edition celebrating the book’s reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.” Also included are course-work questions for use in the classroom, and an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.
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( Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a ...)
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. In this brand new edition celebrating the book’s reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning The Calorie Man” and Yellow Card Man.” Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.
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(A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world...)
A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
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(Bienvenidos al siglo XXII. Anderson Lake es el hombre de ...)
Bienvenidos al siglo XXII. Anderson Lake es el hombre de confianza de AgriGen en Tailandia, un reino cerrado a los extranjeros para proteger sus preciadas reservas ecológicas. Su empleo como director de una fábrica es en realidad una tapadera. Anderson peina los puestos callejeros de Bangkok en busca del botín más preciado para sus amos: los alimentos que la humanidad creía extinguidos. Entonces encuentra a Emiko... Emiko es una «chica mecánica», el último eslabón de la ingeniería genética. Como los demás neoseres a cuya raza pertenece, fue diseñada para servir. Acusados por unos de carecer de alma, por otros de ser demonios encarnados, los neoseres son esclavos, soldados o, en el caso de Emiko, juguetes sexuales para satisfacer a los ricos en un futuro inquietantemente cercano... donde las personas nuevamente han de recordar qué las hace humanas.
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(Ein junger Held, eine gefährliche Welt und ein unvergessl...)
Ein junger Held, eine gefährliche Welt und ein unvergessliches Abenteuer Amerika in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft: Die letzten Ölquellen sind versiegt, der Meeresspiegel ist stark angestiegen, und das Land wird beinahe täglich von verheerendenUnwettern heimgesucht. In dieser Welt sind die Wracks der großen Tanker, die entlang der Golfküste stranden, die Lebensgrundlage für Nailer und seine Freunde. Sie kriechen in das Innere der Schiffe und suchen nach Kupfer und anderen wertvollen Materialien. Es ist ein harter Job, bei dem niemand auf den anderen Rücksicht nimmt und jeder versucht, der Schnellste zu sein. Eines Tages erreicht Nailer als Erster einen nach einem Hurrikan gekenterten Klipper – ein Glücksfall, der ihn auf einen Schlag aus der Armut befreien könnte. Aber im Bauch des Schiffs ist ein Mädchen gefangen. Und Nailer steht vor einer folgenschweren Entscheidung – denn wenn er das Mädchen rettet, ist der wertvolle Fund für ihn verloren …
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(DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Extras include: Leatherbou...)
DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Extras include: Leatherbound w/ custom slipcase, additional full color illustrations, illustrated endpapers -- not in any other edition. Only 200 copies. Brodart protected Dustjacket. SOLD OUT PRE-PUBLICATION.
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(Die Zukunft, wie sie sein könnte Bangkok in naher Zukunf...)
Die Zukunft, wie sie sein könnte Bangkok in naher Zukunft: Klimawandel und die Profitgier der internationalen Großunternehmen haben die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, für immer zerstört. Künstlich generierte Krankheiten, Bioterrorismus und Hungersnöte gehören zum Alltag, die Lebensmittelkonzerne beherrschen die globale Marktwirtschaft. Anderson Lake, Mitarbeiter der Firma AgriGen, versucht, Zugang zu thailändischen Genlaboratorien zu bekommen – weltweit die einzigen, die noch Stammkulturen unverseuchten Getreidesamens besitzen. Doch Thailands Regierung setzt alles daran, das Eindringen der westlichen Konzerne in ihr Land zu verhindern ...
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(Everything is possible in Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted ...)
Everything is possible in Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted Girl". All you ever wanted is here, but it all has a price, and often the physical cost is way too steep. Cell knitters, Revitia treatments, and stolen body parts improve all aspects of the human body. And in Bacigalupi's decadent future world, the goal of all this is simply to enhance one's social standing. Enter twin girls into this world of capitalistic dreams. With a lifetime of treatments behind them, they are now ready to take to the stage as human flutes in a performance that should delight everyone - everyone, that is, except the twins. From the moment Shondra Marie's voice submerses you in this world, you will dread the final outcome. This is a tale that lingers well after the hour is up, and you are well advised to re-play it, just to catch all the hints and tricks Bacigalupi uses in making this such a moving tale.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: La chica mecanica / The Windup Girl Author: Bacigalupi, Paolo/ De los Reyes, Manuel (TRN) Publisher: Random House Mondadori Publication Date: 2012/06/21 Number of Pages: 537 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and...)
In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become soulless killing machines. Two refugees of these wars, Mahlia and Mouse, are known as 'war maggots': survivors who have barely managed to escape the unspeakable violence plaguing the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities. But their fragile safety is threatened when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool, who is hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers. When tragedy strikes, Mahlia is faced with an impossible decision: risk everything to save the boy who once saved her, or flee to her own safety. Drawing upon the brutal truths of current events, The Drowned Cities is a powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.
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( Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the p...)
Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man." The title story is original to this collection. With this book, Paolo Bacigalupi takes his place alongside SF short fiction masters Ted Chiang, Kelly Link and others, as an important young writer that directly and unabashedly tackles today's most important issues.
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(In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award...)
In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale about the lives of three technologically modified guards, their barren, heavily mined landscape, and a chance encounter with a creature rare for their time period – a dog. What starts off as a hunt for an enemy ends up as a story of empathy, and what it means to be human. “The People of Sand and Slag” was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. It was featured in Gardner Dozois’s “Year’s Best SF” Twenty-Second Edition, Jonathan Strahan’s “Best SF of the Year” 2004 Edition, and in John Joseph Adams’ “Wastelands” Anthology in 2008. Reviews: “A difficult and touching story, which steps pretty far outside the box to examine our relationship to pets, and to nature. At every stage, Bacigalupi gets it right.” --- Internet Review of Science Fiction “Bacigalupi posits a future where humanity has adapted itself to living in a hostile environment. ... There is plenty of techie stuff entwined with the premise itself to satisfy the hardest of hard sf readers, but the main attraction of this story is the faint hope that those parts of us that can accept the "other" might still exist in a world where self-preservation and survival come first.” --- Tangent Online
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Bacigalupi, Paolo was born in 1973 in Paonia, Colorado, United States.
Graduate, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1994.
Freelance science fiction writer High Country News, Salon.com, Magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.
(In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and...)
(In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award...)
(Ein junger Held, eine gefährliche Welt und ein unvergessl...)
(Die Zukunft, wie sie sein könnte Bangkok in naher Zukunf...)
( Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a ...)
( Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a ...)
( Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the p...)
(A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world...)
(Everything is possible in Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted ...)
(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: La c...)
(DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Extras include: Leatherbou...)
(Bienvenidos al siglo XXII. Anderson Lake es el hombre de ...)
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