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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Worst) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:27:35 -0500
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On 3/18/2025 8:03 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
> 
> In a future powered by springs, a corrupt and short-sighted
> businessman plots to make the world even worse than it is.
> 
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/some-get-by

I have this book in my SBR (strategic book reserve).  I thought about 
the premise of stored energy in windup springs for a while and decided 
that the book exceeded even my ultra high level of disbelief.

Lynn