Moxyland - by Lauren Beukes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the near future, an art-school dropout, an AIDS baby, a tech-activist, and a blogger live in a world where an online identity is at least as important as a physical one and getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.</b> <p/> 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. <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Moxyland </i>does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of science fiction never even guesses that it <i>could </i>be doing. Very, very good.--<i><b>William Gibson, author of Neuromancer</b></i><br><br>The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different. <br>--<i><b>Cosmopolitan</b></i><br><br>This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon [and] serves as a global warning.--<i><b>GQ</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Lauren Beukes</b> writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller <i>Broken Monsters</i>; <i>The Shining Girls</i>, about a time traveling serial killer; Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir and winner of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award; and the neo-political thriller <i>Moxyland</i>. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary, and wrote the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling graphic novel, <i>Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom</i>. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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