The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
It won all kinds of awards a while back and people ask for it, so I've been on the lookout for a copy. Took it out to lunch and 20 pages slipped effortlessly by, an increasingly uncommon occurrence. I'm not usually a fan of dystopian near future stuff, but either my decade long informal boycott has improved my tolerance or this guy can really write.
Anyway, it gets a preliminary thumb's up. Genre buffs, if you run across a copy give it a look.
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Speaking of SF and genre fic recommendations, I happened upon an old yellowed copy of Tim Powers' 'The Drawing of the Dark' at a B&B in Calistoga last weekend.
I had my iPad (+Kindle app) with me, so I wasn't really looking for a new read, but damned if I didn't spend much of the next two days flipping actual pages.
Not only that, but in a last-minute pitch to avoid slinking off with the innkeeper's paperback so I could finish the tale, I went looking for a Kindle version. Alas, it's in the works, but won't drop until August. (Don't worry, I'll be mailing his book back to him with a note of thanks.) BUT—I was able to download the Kindle version of 'The Stress of Her Regard', which I've never yet found in any brick'n'mortar. Score.
Stress was out of print for many years, I think it got a second lease on life in trade paperback a while ago. My pristine 1st edition hardcover has appreciated nicely- I went on a Powers rampage at the dawn of the internet era and snapped up perfect copies of his early hardcovers, including two copies of On Stranger Tides, which might just put Fuss through college after the new Pirates of the Carribean movie hits.
I'll also note that in the corporate dream of our perfect Bookless Future there will be no serendipitous bedside paperbacks to chance across... =P
"I'll also note that in the corporate dream of our perfect Bookless Future there will be no serendipitous bedside paperbacks to chance across... =P"
The bittersweet irony did not escape me. But as a rabid technophile and co-resident of a small studio apartment, I've been far quicker to embrace ebooks than my life-long love (and considerable stored collection) of used books might lead one to expect.
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