We're all Doomed

Sep 2017
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi – Orbit, 2010
* * * *
Unlike the Becky Chambers books in my previous review, this novel, a worthy winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, has all three ingredients of my perfect SF trifecta. It is set in a memorable future Thailand. Its four main characters are all nuanced and intriguing, and serve to illustrate the various facets of the political thriller plot, which has a proper shape. It's just a shame that it's all so grim.
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