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The post-global-warmjng sci fi novel The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi deals with this scenario: all energy is measured in calories and workers prepare clockw
by codeulike 9y ago
The post-global-warmjng sci fi novel The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi deals with this scenario: all energy is measured in calories and workers prepare clockwork springs that store energy to power devices. It's a great novel, too.
- pja 9y agoWhich is wildly unrealistic of course. There’s no material that can take the tension such springs would have to cope with. Lots of SF books ask you to take one or two impossible things as givens in order to tell the story of course, but this one pushed things a little far for me. The repeated "lets rape the sex bot again" scenes didn't help either. Funny how when she gets her revenge, that’s not described at all, just the aftermath. But we get page after page of lascivious detail on her abuse. Frankly, it left a really bad taste & I didn’t want to read anything by the author in question ever again.
- zero_intp 9y agoThe very technology of the spring winding is a McGuffin in the story.