Nebula Award Winners are Fantastic Fiction
Bacigalupi is his debut novel and this year’s winner of the 2009
Nebula Award.
What appears to be the
usual dark dystopic story of the near future is actually a smart character
driven work of eco-fiction. It is a world where the oil age has passed and the
side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant.
New People or windups are
made to be toys, slaves and soldiers and mega-beasts are created to work the
machines. Food is all genetically engineered and calories companies rule. Emika, a windup girl and one of the New
People, is genetically created as a toy to a rich man but is discarded. While wandering the streets of Bangkok she meets man in search of food that has not been
genetically altered and who, like her, is not quite what he seems.
Also nominated for the
2009 Nebula Award:
Boneshaker by Cherie
Priest
Finch by Jeff Vandermeer
Flesh and Fire by Laura
Gillman;The Love we share without
knowing by Christopher Barzak.
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