The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I was very disappointed in this book. It was hugely derivative of many works better written and paced. Created beings working out the essence of their existence in wacky ways in a not too distant, dystopian future. This is a western world hating diatribe without any pretense of laying out all sides as the best sci-fi does. Chicken little, the sky-is-heating propaganda further lowers the intellectual level of the work. I really wish I’d read the inside jacket about the author before turning to it at the end of the book when I asked myself, “who is this idiot?”, “Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo’s work.” Too true.
I’d actually like to see someone write some social criticism of the politically correct, climate change (now they’re too afraid to take a fixed stance on just warming), western-world-is-root-of-global-ills sci-fi tome.
