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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 . . .
'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
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A technicolour jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell ...Like A Clockwork Orange, this book has the makings of a cult success -- Andre Brink 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, <i>The Sunday Independent</i> 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 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 <i>Angel of Death</i> 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 Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it -- Gillian Flynn I recommend it highly -- Paul Cornell 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 * 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 * Beukes's stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath * Heat *
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Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4059-2407-8 (9781405924078)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
LAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss, as well as Zoo City, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 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.
