/lit/ - Literature

>>3802254
Maybe some biopunk?

No love for biopunk?

It's hard to say. But in recent memory The Windup Girl was excellent.

>>3437106
The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi involved quite a bit of intrigue and powerplay. If you don't mind sci-fi it might please.

poignant and revelatory prose general.

Thinking of picking this one up...

What does /lit/ think of the book?

>won the nebula, locus, and hugo awards
>female protagonist is brutally raped in almost every chapter
>sci-fi community confirmed for bitter misogynists

Has anyone read this? Saw it at the bookstore this morning and it looked interesting.

After a genetic agri-pocalypse bred nameless mutating plagues, forever unraveling the web of life, the world has undergone a vast contraction, the world market is not more. The American Empire is a feted wasteland of Blister Rust, and Cibiscosis v.2.0.1.

In a future Thailand, Calorie Man Anderson Lake roamed the dank markets of Throng-Kep, an agent for AgriGen, one of the last corporate traces of the Americas; the genehackers, authors of this new broken world. He searches for new food, new genetic information that can be broken down and used for new iterations of sterile U-Tex rice and SoyPRO. Genetically engineered food that will remain untainted for at least a few seasons, before the plagues mutate again.

Beyond coal and oil, this new world runs on calories and kinetic energy. Genetically-engineered Megodons wind immense kink-springs, pouring gigajoules of kinetic energy to be later slowly unraveled, used for transit blimps and clipper ships. Bodies dead from plague or war are dumped into the massive mulchers along with food waste, every calorie being recycled back into government-approved green methane lamps and cooking stoves for the city.

How about this??
I'm thinking of reading it. Any comment?

I'm reading this right now.

It started out a bit... well, a bit inaccessible, but as the world fleshes out a bit more it becomes quite good.

It's quite an interesting social commentary. I suppose it's science fiction only by technical definition of being slightly in the future in a world where there is absolutely no more petroleum products or oil resources available in the world, and calories are the only form of energy really left.

It took some revving up, but I'm really enjoying it now.

>>564301
It does, but there are plenty of authors and readers (not to mention scenester clubkids) who either don't realize it or don't seem to care.

Also, OP, this.