What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In "The Windup Girl", award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner and Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions.

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 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."

【得獎紀錄】
2009 年《時代雜誌》年度十大小說
2009 年《出版人周刊》（Publisher Weekly）年度科奇幻類推薦小說
2009 年《圖書館期刊》（Library Journal）年度科奇幻類推薦小說
2009 年《軌跡雜誌》（Locus）年度科奇幻類推薦小說
2009 年 Barnes & Noble 書店年度最佳科奇幻小說第二名
2009 年星雲獎（Nebula Award）最佳科奇幻小說得主
2010 年雨果獎（Hugo Award）最佳科奇幻小說得主
2010 年軌跡獎（Locus Award）最佳新人科幻小說得主
2010 年約翰．坎貝爾紀念獎（John W. Campbell Memorial Award）得主
2010 年康普頓．庫克獎（Compton Crook Award）得主
2010 年美國圖書館協會「參考及讀者服務學會」（Reference and User Services Association）書單推薦最佳科幻小說
2010 年科奇幻評論網站 SF Site年度讀者票選第二名
2011 年英國科幻協會獎（BSFA Award）最佳科幻小說入圍
在浩劫襲捲的世界中，泰國成為最後的人間樂園，諸神之城－－曼谷半埋在海水當中…
安德森．雷克是一位外國熱量販子，藉彈簧工廠老闆的掩護身分，希望在泰國掘出泰國人抵擋變種疾病的祕方；他的祕書陳福成是馬來西亞華人難民，家人與事業於排華運動中毀於一旦，輾轉淪落至此，處心積慮想重建氏族；賈迪．羅傑納薩卡夏上尉是泰國環保部的「白襯衫」，人稱「曼谷之虎」，嚴厲執法取締非法貨物，不惜槓上勢力龐大的攝政王與貿易部部長；賈迪的副手坎雅是個面無笑容的女人，背負著無人知曉的「業」（註：即宗教名詞Karma），發現曼谷的命運終將落至她手中。
在權力風暴的外圍，有一位從日本來的「發條女孩」，她是出身京都的高科技產物，集合基因操縱與合成細胞技術而誕生的人造人－－惠美子。像他們這樣的新人類可以解決年輕勞動力亟度缺乏的問題，有完美的視力、絕佳的皮膚，還有抗疾病跟癌症的基因，攬鏡自照時永遠不會驚覺青絲如雪。這樣一個女孩，又為什麼出現在曼谷、在眾多眼底灼燒著火焰的尋歡男子們之中徬徨？
一個寫實、維妙、瀕臨災難邊緣的未來曼谷，一群各異的角色，從政府高層到低賤庶民，都在這不宜居住的環境算計著如何生存。
◎聯合推薦
《出版人週刊》
《圖書館期刊》
《美國圖書館協會》
《英國科幻協會》
台灣科幻小說書評家／林翰昌（貓昌）
「這部複雜、充滿文化與強烈動人的故事，同時令人想起威廉‧吉布森（William Gibson）和伊恩‧麥克當諾（Ian MacDonald）最傑出的（異國文化）科幻作品，會使巴奇加盧比贏得評論者的重要注意，也絕對是年度最佳科幻小說之一。」
－－《出版人周刊》（Publishers Weekly）

*Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel*
In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man; (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions. This title has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. This title was also on the best book lists of the year for Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko... Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution?

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.

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse.

THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

A YA thriller about a teenage girl who discovers that her father is at the helm of an organization providing dangerous false messaging to society about global warming and other issues.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.