保罗·巴奇加卢皮

美国当代科幻界引人瞩目的70后新秀作家。大学主修东亚研究，毕业后曾客居中国，在昆明和北京学习中文。由于这些经历，其作品常具有浓厚的东方背景，显示出作者对东方文化的兴趣和关注。

从2005年开始，巴奇加卢皮在科幻界崭露头角，至今已获得五次雨果奖提名、四次星云奖提名。2009年，巴奇加卢皮的长篇处女作《发条女孩》一经面世，就迅速囊括了包括星云奖、雨果奖在内的几乎所有幻想文学大奖，并入选《时代》周刊“年度十佳小说”，作者本人也成为美国最耀眼的科幻新星。

*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.