The Windup Girl is available from Night Shade Books on the Webscription website. You can get it in various formats: mobi, kindle, epub, html, rtf, lrf, lit, etc.

It’s only six bucks. And I highly recommend both the site and the book.

The future in The Windup Girl wasn’t the point to book, merely the backdrop to a well-plotted and well-told story. And oftentimes his works are more upbeat about the future then you’d initially imagine, Pump Six was a great example of this.

The thing is, books based on popular bugaboos are naked cash-ins, and I immediately discount them with a derisive eye-roll, even if people claim they’re good. And the tragedy here is that they might actually be good but for that one weakness, succumbing to the temptation to exploit a popular bugaboo in exchange for slightly higher media exposure. Why don’t they just try to stand on their own merits? If they’re actually good, they’ll make it anyway. If they suck, well then they need all the help they can get, and so exploiting a bugaboo is only natural.

So I naturally think exploitation books always suck, even if people I respect say otherwise. I’m pretty sure peak oil isn’t going to crush the world economy any more than Y2K did.

So anyway, it just seems like a waste of time to read it if it’s going to be pushing an agenda instead of an actual story.

P.S. You could always go to a library and see if they have it. That’s where I got both. =)