{"id":11115,"date":"2017-09-10T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2017-09-10T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T02:28:54","slug":"the-windup-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-windup-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windup Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;And yet here the foreign devil sits, complaining about the tiny prick of a needle, but completely unconcerned that he has destroyed a ten-ton animal in the blink of an eye. The <strong>yang guizi<\/strong> are strange creatures indeed. More alien than he suspected, even when he traded with them regularly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Windup Girl<\/strong> by Paolo Bacigalupi, published in 2009<\/p>\n<p>In Thailand of the future things are tough, but better than other countries who succumbed to disease or rising sea levels. Emiko is a windup girl, a &#8220;new person&#8221; who&#8217;s been genetically engineered to obey. Anderson is a factory owner who&#8217;s secretly part of AgriGen and looking for disease-resistant food. Two huge factions of the government, Trade and Environment, have been at odds and are gearing up for a big fight.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t grab me right away but it&#8217;s worth it to keep reading. Once it gets going you&#8217;ll be delighted by the characters and setting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at times reminiscent of a James Clavell novel, with everybody plotting against each other.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first book by Bacigalupi I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;And yet here the foreign devil sits, complaining about the tiny prick of a needle, but completely unconcerned that he has destroyed a ten-ton animal in the blink of an eye. The yang guizi are strange creatures indeed. More alien than he suspected, even when he traded with them regularly.&#8221; The Windup Girl by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11117,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}