保羅·巴奇加盧皮

美國當代科幻界引人矚目的70後新秀作傢。大學主修東亞研究，畢業後曾客居中國，在昆明和北京學習中文。由於這些經曆，其作品常具有濃厚的東方背景，顯示齣作者對東方文化的興趣和關注。

從2005年開始，巴奇加盧皮在科幻界嶄露頭角，至今已獲得五次雨果奬提名、四次星雲奬提名。2009年，巴奇加盧皮的長篇處女作《發條女孩》一經麵世，就迅速囊括瞭包括星雲奬、雨果奬在內的幾乎所有幻想文學大奬，並入選《時代》周刊“年度十佳小說”，作者本人也成為美國最耀眼的科幻新星。

*Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel*

In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. 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 others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man; (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions. This title has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. This title was also on the best book lists of the year for Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.