The WindUp Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

[jenmarya]

Serious, gripping novel. Won Hugo and Nebula and craploads of other prizes fairly. Excellent plotting, characters, even prose. And there's a ghost;  Shakespeare and Dexter's writers would approve.

The WindUp Girl is set in a frighteningly believable future with giant corporations but without fossil fuels (no nuclear or solar power, even). All the

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[jenmarya]

http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2008/09/seed-for-thought.html
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/27/070827fa_fact_seabrook

I had no idea Afghanistan's and Iraq's seed banks were actually destroyed by US invasions. Intensely sad. Bacigalupi must have known.