Some Get By
The Windup Girl
By Paolo Bacigalupi
18 Mar, 2025
What's The Worst That Could Happen?
Paolo Bacigalupi’s 2009 The Windup Girl is an award-winning cli-fi novel.
The end of cheap oil combined with rampant climate change have brought nation-states and international trade to their knees. This has not prevented giant agribusiness from extending their power across the planet. As engineered blights obliterate public domain plants, the hungry masses are forced to embrace copyrighted, genetically-engineered crops.
Plucky little Thailand is one of the few holdouts. It’s Anderson Lake’s task to crush Thai intransigence.