6/29/2023 0 Comments Moxyland by Lauren Beukes![]() Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight. ![]() On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles 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. 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 and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. ![]()
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