Moxyland

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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 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 Expand reviews