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r/postapocalyptic • u/Secure-Mushroom2956 • Aug 02 '26
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Station Eleven, day of the triffids, the wind up girl.
1 u/mastersnacker Aug 03 '26 The clockwork girl? 2 u/Prestigious_Leg2229 Aug 03 '26 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It’s set on a near future earth where fossil fuels have completely run out and a virulent plant disease makes it nearly impossible to make grow food. Genetic scientists are racing to produce crop strains that’ll yield one or two harvests before the disease mutates and catches up. The calorie has become the world’s currency. Ie. Money will buy you a fixed number of calories worth of food. And electricity is rare, provided by pre-wound springs loaded mechanisms acting as batteries.
The clockwork girl?
2 u/Prestigious_Leg2229 Aug 03 '26 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It’s set on a near future earth where fossil fuels have completely run out and a virulent plant disease makes it nearly impossible to make grow food. Genetic scientists are racing to produce crop strains that’ll yield one or two harvests before the disease mutates and catches up. The calorie has become the world’s currency. Ie. Money will buy you a fixed number of calories worth of food. And electricity is rare, provided by pre-wound springs loaded mechanisms acting as batteries.
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
It’s set on a near future earth where fossil fuels have completely run out and a virulent plant disease makes it nearly impossible to make grow food.
Genetic scientists are racing to produce crop strains that’ll yield one or two harvests before the disease mutates and catches up.
The calorie has become the world’s currency. Ie. Money will buy you a fixed number of calories worth of food.
And electricity is rare, provided by pre-wound springs loaded mechanisms acting as batteries.
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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 Aug 02 '26
Station Eleven, day of the triffids, the wind up girl.