Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score.
Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences.
) proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation. Noted short story writer Bacigalupi ( Pump Six and Other Stories
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