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Moxyland: A gripping and thrilling novel from the winner of the Arthur C Clarke award

Autor Lauren Beukes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2018
Look out for AFTERLAND, the new novel by Lauren Beukes

In a troubling, near-future Cape Town four broken people try to carve out a place for themselves before a brutal storm of change hits them . . .

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'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it'Gillian Flynn

Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid. Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem.

Four hurt and damaged individuals trying to make lives for themselves in a broken, uncertain future. But as events send them on a collision course their worlds are about to change in unexpected - and explosive - ways.

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'You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas'Guardian

'A major, major talent'George R. R. Martin
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405924078
ISBN-10: 1405924071
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling South African author ofThe Shining Girls, Zoo CityandBroken Monsters, among other works. Her novels have been published in 24 countries and are being adapted for film and TV. She's also a screenwriter, comics writer journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her daughter and two troublesome cats.

Recenzii

Atechnicolour jazzy rollercoaster rideinto a dazzling hell ...LikeA Clockwork Orange, this bookhas the makings of a cult success
A great read, fast-paced, witty, sussed and sexy.Itsnaps and popswith neologisms and geek-speak, andfizzes and buzzeswith gadgetry and techno-toys.
The larval form ofa new kind of SFmunching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk
Beukes has created an imaginary world thatcaptures the social realities of our time. As entertaining as MOXYLAND is, it is alsoprofoundand, dare I say,important...
Lean, sharp, and tightly written, MOXYLAND keeps raising the stakes, from the opening chapter to the uncompromising finale. And with itselectronic panopticon, it gives us a dystopia to rival 1984 or Stand On Zanzibar - a future horrifying for its very plausibility
Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways.I'm all over it
I recommend it highly
You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novelthat isfast, brimming withoriginalideas and deadlyserious
Moulds language to its own purpose so shockingly, isso gripping and so disturbing, that it will become, in time, a classic ...Sassy, bold, inventive, believable, deeply engaging and overtly, sublimely political, MOXYLAND will draw to itself a wide and appreciative audience
Beukes'sstunningly originalsci-fi thrillerchills and thrillsto the last breath
The world Beukes has invented isboth eerily familiar and creepily different
If you're a fan of any kind of science fiction, you'll find something in MOXYLAND to delight you
Thisfast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexiconand ... serves as a global warning
Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the 'urban fantasy' sub-genre back towards its ground breakingroots
George Orwell's1984meetsBladerunner. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness
Moxylanddoes lots of things, masterfully, that lots of SF never even guesses that itcouldbe doing