Strange Worlds Book Club
10/14/2010 6:00 pm
10/14/2010 7:30 pm
Join us as we explore Paolo Bacigalupi’s award winning book, The Windup Girl. Emiko is the titular character, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future. 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? Paolo Bacigalupi dares to address these poignant questions in The Windup Girl.
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