Booklist names THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi to The Reading List: Best Adult Genre Fiction, 2010

John Joseph Adams | July 27th 2010 at 12:16 pm

The Windup Girl. By Paolo Bacigalupi. Night Shade, $24.95 (9781597801577).

Bacigalupi constructs a sobering and nuanced vision of a future Bangkok teetering on the edge of disaster. In this inhospitable environment, a disparate group of characters calculates how to survive. The novel’s gritty tone, provocative story line, and sympathetic characters evoke a world that is frighteningly real. Read-alikes: Bruce Sterling’s Distraction, Ian McDonald’s Brasyl, and Charles Stross’ Accelerando.

Shortlist: The Empress of Mars, by Kage Baker (Tor); Flood, by Stephen Baxter (Penguin); The Quiet War, by Paul J. McAuley (Pyr); Steal across the Skies, by Nancy Kress (Tor).

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