Night Shade Books
May 2010
On Sale: May 15, 2010
300 pages ISBN: 1597801585 EAN: 9781597801584 Kindle: B006TKP2B2 Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in
Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs
Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to
be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost
calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup
Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New
People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered
being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent
whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the
streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some,
devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys
of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie
companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the
side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across
the globe.
What Happens when calories become currency? What happens
when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits,
when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to
the cusp of post-human evolution?
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