A novel that won the Hugo and Nebula awards for 2010! A novel that topped Time magazine's top ten "books of the year" list! A new sensation of science fiction literature that equally delighted famous critics and thousands of fans of good science fiction portal amazon.com!Anderson Lake is a company man, a calorie specialist for Agrogen in Thailand. Anderson scours Bangkok's street markets for foods long thought to be extinct, hoping to harvest the bounty of history's lost calories. It is there that he meets Emiko. Emiko is a crazy girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; she is an artificially created being, bred in an incubator and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of Kyoto businessmen, and now thrown onto the streets of Bangkok...