"Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange": GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl.
This article raises questions about the aesthetics of scale as they appear relative to genetically modified organisms in science fiction and especially in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009). Bacigalupi makes the unusual choice of representing GMOs largely through science-fictional tropes of a...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 500 - 519 |
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University of California Press
Nov2015
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