Comments | calico_reaction: Bacigalupi, Paolo: The Windup Girl

calico_reaction

Bacigalupi, Paolo: The Windup Girl

Oct 11, 2009 15:36

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blog: reviews, paolo bacigalupi, award: nebula, fiction: dystopia, ratings: worth reading with reservations, award: hugo, , fiction: science fiction

Comments 7

geekygirl October 12 2009, 03:10:06 UTC

Excellent review (as always)! I'll definitely have to check this one out! :)

jetfx October 13 2009, 01:50:44 UTC

After reading his short story "Yellow Card Man" set in the same universe, I really wanted the novel as I love near future third world settings. However, the damn thing was all sold out at Worldcon.

calico_reaction October 13 2009, 02:32:28 UTC

They only had limited copies at Worldcon, but you can order it off of Amazon! :)

jetfx October 14 2009, 02:00:06 UTC

I'm poor now though.

aurillia October 13 2009, 18:33:27 UTC

Mmm, lovely cover. I haven't seen this around but I can always pin it down on Amazon :)

shel99 July 21 2012, 14:46:41 UTC

I was given this as a gift just in time to read it for a discussion on Goodreads. I liked, but didn't love it. Like you, I found myself emotionally distant. I just didn't like any of the characters and so had a hard time caring about what happened to them. I am curious enough to want to read the short story prequel, though; I didn't know there was another story in this world.

I appreciated the ecological themes of the book and it certainly made me think.

calico_reaction July 21 2012, 20:39:35 UTC

Yeah, the "prequel" story (such as it is) features a character that's in the novel, but like I said in the review, Bacigalupi changed the character's name in the novel. :)