{"product_id":"moxyland-9781405924078","title":"Moxyland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT \u003ci\u003eSHINING GIRLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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 . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I''m all over it'' \u003c\/b\u003e GILLIAN FLYNN\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKendra, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour 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.\u003cbr\u003e_______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''You don''t have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003etechnicolour jazzy rollercoaster ride\u003c\/b\u003e into a dazzling hell ...Like \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, this book \u003cb\u003ehas the makings of a cult success\u003c\/b\u003e -- André Brink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA great read, fast-paced, witty, sussed and sexy. \u003c\/b\u003eIt \u003cb\u003esnaps and pops\u003c\/b\u003e with neologisms and geek-speak, and \u003cb\u003efizzes and buzzes\u003c\/b\u003e with gadgetry and techno-toys. -- Michiel Heyns, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe larval form of\u003cb\u003e a new kind of SF\u003c\/b\u003e munching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk -- Charles Stross\u003cbr\u003eBeukes has created an imaginary world that \u003cb\u003ecaptures the social realities of our time\u003c\/b\u003e. As entertaining as MOXYLAND is, it is also\u003cb\u003e profound \u003c\/b\u003eand, dare I say,\u003cb\u003e important\u003c\/b\u003e ... -- J Robert King, author of \u003ci\u003eAngel of Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLean, sharp, and tightly written\u003c\/b\u003e, MOXYLAND keeps raising the stakes, from the opening chapter to the uncompromising finale. And with its \u003cb\u003eelectronic panopticon\u003c\/b\u003e, it gives us a dystopia to rival 1984 or Stand On Zanzibar - a future horrifying for its very plausibility -- Gareth L Powell\u003cbr\u003eBeukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. \u003cb\u003eI'm all over it\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gillian Flynn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI recommend it highly\u003c\/b\u003e -- Paul Cornell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel\u003c\/b\u003e that is \u003cb\u003efast\u003c\/b\u003e, brimming with\u003cb\u003e original\u003c\/b\u003e ideas and deadly \u003cb\u003eserious\u003c\/b\u003e * The Mail and Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eMoulds language to its own purpose so shockingly, is \u003cb\u003eso gripping and so disturbing, that it will become, in time, a classic ... \u003c\/b\u003eS\u003cb\u003eassy, bold, inventive, believable, deeply engaging and overtly, sublimely political\u003c\/b\u003e, MOXYLAND will draw to itself a wide and appreciative audience * Psychologies *\u003cbr\u003eBeukes's \u003cb\u003estunningly original\u003c\/b\u003e sci-fi thriller \u003cb\u003echills and thrills\u003c\/b\u003e to the last breath * Heat *\u003cbr\u003eThe world Beukes has invented is \u003cb\u003eboth eerily familiar and creepily different\u003c\/b\u003e * Cosmopolitan *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you're a fan of any kind of science fiction, you'll find something in MOXYLAND to delight you\u003c\/b\u003e * Marie Claire *\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003efast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon\u003c\/b\u003e and ... serves as a global warning * GQ *\u003cbr\u003eBeukes 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 * Publisher's Weekly, starred review *\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eBladerunner\u003c\/i\u003e. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness -- Margie Orford, author of * Like Clockwork *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoxyland\u003c\/i\u003e does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of SF never even guesses that it \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c\/i\u003e be doing -- William Gibson, author of * Neuromancer *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738967683415,"sku":"9781405924078","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405924078.jpg?v=1720050733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moxyland-9781405924078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}