Título: The Windup Girl
Autor: Paolo Bacigalupi
Sinopse: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, 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 is 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. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Windup Girl”, de Paolo Bacigalupi, publicado pela editora Night Shade Books, em 2015 e com 480 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Night Shade Books
Páginas: 480
Ano: 2015
Edição: Reissue
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781597808217
ISBN13: 9781597808217
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Night Shade Books oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o fantástico, a ficção científica e o horror, com frequente atenção a universos complexos e personagens multifacetados. O catálogo apresenta histórias que exploram desde impérios galácticos e conflitos políticos até dilemas ambientais e sociais, muitas vezes com um tom que mistura tensão e reflexão. Há obras que evocam atmosferas densas e sombrias, enquanto outras se destacam por aventuras em cenários variados, como mundos terraformados, ruínas submersas ou fronteiras cósmicas. A diversidade do catálogo permite tanto leituras mais introspectivas quanto narrativas de ação e suspense, com um ritmo que varia conforme o tema e o foco do enredo.
