The Windup Girl
Ranked #29 in Cyberpunk, Ranked #39 in Hugo Award — see more rankings.
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... more
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Seth Godin Author, Marketer, EntrepreneurNovels: The Windup Girl and Pattern Recognition are chock full of images and ideas that will stick with you for months. (Source)
Marvin Liao Partner/500 StartupsMy list would be (besides the ones I mentioned in answer to the previous question) both business & Fiction/Sci-Fi and ones I personally found helpful to myself. The business books explain just exactly how business, work & investing are in reality & how to think properly & differentiate yourself. On the non-business side, a mix of History & classic fiction to understand people, philosophy to make sense of life and Science fiction to picture what the future could be like (not always utopian). (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Windup Girl is ranked in the following categories:
- #40 in Biotechnology
- #70 in Climate Change
- #75 in Genetics
- #79 in Global Warming
- #98 in Oil
- #78 in Steampunk
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