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The thing that I like about it is that it perfectly captures this wild-wild west feeling in biotech during the 80's and 90's. I think our expectations of genetic engineering and different kinds of 'consumer biologicals' are far more realistic now, and we've lost a lot of the wonder associated with this kind of science.
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Neuromancer was Windup Girl 30 years ago. The cultural aspects of it, with a heapin' helpin' of Cold War Paranoia, are the basis of Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling (also 30 years old). That's why I recommended Windup Girl - it's one of the few books out there that isn't older than everybody reading this.