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John Lusk

Tarheel@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 1 month ago

Old white cishet suburban male. Software engineer.

Mostly interested in sci-fi (fiction) and anti-racism (non-fiction), but, wow, is that stuff Hard To Read. (Mostly because it's all my fault.)

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Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl (2009) 4 stars

The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi. It …

The prose is poetry. It's worth going slow to savor it, but that also makes it hard to read (i.e., it takes effort), as opposed to the pulp that is my usual diet. It's worth it, though.

I think of it as bio-punk. With enough Thai (presumably) words to keep you off-balance.