The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

I finished this piece of post-cyberpunk storytelling over the weekend.

I enjoyed the writing and the scene setting was very immersive. I call it post-cyberpunk for various reasons, among them are: the lack of mechanical high tech which comes from it's post oil crash setting rife with genetic engineering, the focus being on small players in the big corporations rather than the typical rogue loners, and of course it's coming twenty years after the cyberpunk boom.

The story moves along reasonably well and one's personal race to the climactic ending was enhanced by several locomotive-based commutes of reading.

All in all a good solid three and a half star read.
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