shandrakor 's review for:

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

4.0

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The apocalypse for past generations has been nuclear. For us, it is environmental. Rising sea levels, exhaustion of petroleum or pandemic disease. Or perhaps it's genetic engineering or biological weapons. Bacigalupi presents a world ravaged by all of these, with a healthy dose of unchecked corporatism to round things out. Honestly, this is a book that deserves to be shelved in Horror, not Sci-Fi. At it's heart, I see a humanity that strives to survive at all costs, but which is also incapable of ever learning from the lessons of the past. That's a scenerio that I find every bit as horrifying as it is utterly plausible.