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Moxyland

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A technicolour jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell ...Like A Clockwork Orange, this book has the makings of a cult success

A great read, fast-paced, witty, sussed and sexy. It snaps and pops with neologisms and geek-speak, and fizzes and buzzes with gadgetry and techno-toys.

Michiel Heyns, The Sunday Independent

The larval form of a new kind of SF munching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk

Beukes has created an imaginary world that captures the social realities of our time. As entertaining as MOXYLAND is, it is also profound and, dare I say, important ...

J Robert King, author of Angel of Death

Lean, sharp, and tightly written, MOXYLAND keeps raising the stakes, from the opening chapter to the uncompromising finale. And with its electronic 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

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

Moulds language to its own purpose so shockingly, is so 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's stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath

The world Beukes has invented is both 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

This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon and ... 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's 1984 meets Bladerunner. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness

Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of SF never even guesses that it could be doing

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

In the near future, Kendra, an art-school dropout, Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, Tendek, a hot-headed activist, and Toby, a roguish blogger, live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment.  But someone's got to stand up to government inc., whatever the cost.

The gripping novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls

FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLS 
 
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 . . . 
 
'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it' GILLIAN FLYNN 
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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

Moxyland

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

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