This book won the Nebula 2010 award.
In the second year of COVID, it has been a good read to see how things can be in a few years if we are not awake enough.
The book tells the story of a corporation manager in Thailand, a "yellow card" who is a chinese refugee, a White Shirt(environment ministry police), ex tai-boxing champion who is the White Shirt's captain and a windup girl who is a new people(genetically improved human) used as sexual attraction in Bangkok.
The world by then has collapsed ecologically and plagues and virus have brought the world wars, famines and the domination of the Calory companies who control the plague resistant plants who feed the world, except in Thailand that closed it's borders and developed an internal program to feed their people successfully.
As always, political corruption leads to problems and the book is well written and you can see different points of view to understand the situation.
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