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.
There, he encounters Emiko… Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. 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. “ spectacular adventure… one heart-pounding ride… dizzyingly good.”Īnderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies…even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlord struggles for power. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.ĭarrow-and Reds like him-are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed.
He spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future.
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