Moxyland - Softcover

Beukes, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316267910 ISBN 13: 9780316267915

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2016

Synopsis

Praised as "masterful" by William Gibson, Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable is follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.

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.
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.

About this title

Review:

"The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different."
--Cosmopolitan


"This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon [and] serves as a global warning."--GQ

"Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of science fiction never even guesses that it could be doing. Very, very good."--William Gibson, author of Neuromancer

Book Description:

Moxyland is a great read, fast-paced, witty, sussed and sexy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316267910
• ISBN 13: 9780316267915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320