Moxyland
- Author Lauren Beukes
- Narrator various
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 8 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Science fiction: near-future, Science fiction: steampunk, Technothriller, Urban fantasy.
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What to expect
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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
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.
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 …
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
I recommend it highly
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
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