Night Shade News & Notes

J. J. Adams | October 21st 2009 at 1:00 pm

• Grasping for the Wind reviews The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi – "The Windup Girl is a story of social revolution and few of the characters leave this near-future Bangkok unscathed. It is a fascinating tale, unusual both in its content and location. Few others, save perhaps Ian McDonald, have used the opportunity presented by the history and culture of the East to such great effect. To those raised in a Western Civilization, the novel is full of the unknown and the strange, but those with political and historical acumen will notice that although Bacigalupi is positing a future, he also reaches into a recent and turbulent past. Such a grounding in reality gives The Windup Girl a powerful emotional punch."

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