This is the most enjoyable book I read last year, and I believe it won the 2009 Hugo. After you’re done reading you have a few fridge moments (“wait… that probably couldn’t work”) but while you’re reading it it’s pure enjoyment and it’s really easy to overlook those for the sake of the story. Set in a post oil-crash world, focusing on working class characters trying to make a living while still doing something bigger with their lives. Great action, great plotting, really interesting characters, and a really unique society (from an American point of view anyway).
Windup Girl—Paolo Bacigalupi
This is the most enjoyable book I read last year, and I believe it won the 2009 Hugo. After you’re done reading you have a few fridge moments (“wait… that probably couldn’t work”) but while you’re reading it it’s pure enjoyment and it’s really easy to overlook those for the sake of the story. Set in a post oil-crash world, focusing on working class characters trying to make a living while still doing something bigger with their lives. Great action, great plotting, really interesting characters, and a really unique society (from an American point of view anyway).