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Moxyland
- Author
- Lauren Beukes
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 February 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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 . . .
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.
'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it' Gillian Flynn
'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
© Lauren Beukes 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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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
André Brink
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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
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The larval form of a new kind of SF munching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk
Charles Stross
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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
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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
Gareth L Powell
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Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it
Gillian Flynn
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I recommend it highly
Paul Cornell
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You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas and deadly serious
The Mail and Guardian
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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
Psychologies
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Beukes's stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath
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Details
- Author
- Lauren Beukes
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 8 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9781405941747
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science fiction: near future, Technothriller, Science fiction: steampunk, Urban fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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 . . .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.'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it' Gillian Flynn'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© Lauren Beukes 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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