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The Windup Girl By: Paolo Bacigalupi The Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook , and the Locus awards winning novel, Windup Girl is exactly what modern science fiction should be. It is interesting and engaging as while as a brilliant satire on what modern life is and what it is becoming. Set in a futuristic Thailand empire, in which global warming has risen the levels of world's oceans, carbon fuel sources have become depleted, and manually wound springs are used as energy storage devices. One of the main differences between our world and the book's is that in the story there has been one plague after another and it has almost completely destroyed the