Moxyland

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By Lauren Beukes

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Lauren Beukes’s frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.

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.

On a collision course that will rewire their lives, these characters crackle with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, Lauren Beukes spins a tale of a utopia gone wrong, satirically undermining the idea of progress as society’s white knight.

  • "Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of science fiction never even guesses that it could be doing. Very, very good."
    William Gibson, author of Neuromancer
  • "The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different."
    Cosmopolitan
  • "This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon [and] serves as a global warning."
    GQ

On Sale
Aug 16, 2016
Page Count
416 pages
Publisher
Mulholland Books
ISBN-13
9780316267908

Lauren Beukes

About the Author

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+, as well as Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she’s also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.

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