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Posted 2010-04-24 3:50 AM (#1905)
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I just discovered this Author via William Gibson's twitter account; http://twitter.com/GreatDismal. I haven't read any yet but it looks very interesting.

According to wikipedia: "Lauren Beukes (born on 5 June 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and her daughter."

She seems to have written two SF books, "Moxyland" and "Zoo City" which has just been released.

William Gibson's blurbage:

"Lauren Beukes is very *very* good .. it feels effortless, utterly accomplished"

About Moxyland:

Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of sf never even guesses that it *could* be doing.
- William Gibson

Its what you get when you take your classic 80s deracinated corporate alienation sensibility, detonate about six kilos of semtex under it, and scatter the smoking wreckage across 21st century South Africa full of unselfconscious spiky originality, 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

pretty high calibre praise ...

Links

http://www.moxyland.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Beukes
http://laurenbeukes.book.co.za/
http://laurenbeukes.book.co.za/blog/2010/04/23/front-n-back/
http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/laurenbeukes/moxyland/

I grew up in Cape Town so am really looking forward to reading these. Anyone read them?

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Posted 2010-04-24 9:06 AM (#1908 - in reply to #1905)
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High praise indeed.  I've not read her yet but you've made me put Moxyland on my list now.

Moxyland was on the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Long List so we've got it in our database.  There's a long excerpt available if you want to get a feel for her style.

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Posted 2010-11-17 2:16 AM (#2231 - in reply to #1905)
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/zoo-city-hard-boiled.html
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Posted 2010-11-17 7:33 AM (#2232 - in reply to #2231)
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htaccess - 2010-11-17 2:16 AM http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/zoo-city-hard-boiled.html[/QUOTE]

Looks like I need to add Zoo City to the DB.

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Posted 2010-12-21 7:59 AM (#2279 - in reply to #2232)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		Yes, please add Zoo City. It does me proud to see a South African sf author - for obvious reasons. And she lives a stone throw from me :-)
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Posted 2010-12-21 10:49 PM (#2280 - in reply to #2279)
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Done and done.  aegjung, thanks for the reminder!

Zoo City  

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Posted 2010-12-22 1:05 AM (#2281 - in reply to #2280)
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Location: Dallas, Texas		I just added book trailers to Moxyland and Zoo City .  Check 'em out.
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Posted 2010-12-22 1:13 AM (#2283 - in reply to #2281)
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