Moxyland

A technicolour jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell ...Like A Clockwork Orange, this book has the makings of a cult success -- Andr 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 * The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different * Cosmopolitan * If you're a fan of any kind of science fiction, you'll find something in MOXYLAND to delight you * Marie Claire * This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon and ... serves as a global warning * GQ * 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 * Publisher's Weekly, starred review * George Orwell's 1984 meets Bladerunner. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness -- Margie Orford, author of * Like Clockwork * Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of SF never even guesses that it could be doing -- William Gibson, author of * Neuromancer *

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.