Moxyland

‘Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of sf never even guesses that it *could* be doing. Very, very good.’

– William Gibson

‘A Technicolor jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell.’

– André Brink

‘A rare treat. Reminiscent at times of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Moxyland is funny, gritty, imaginative and, ultimately, deeply disturbing. A politically charged urban speculative thriller that will leave you wanting more.’

– Obrigado

‘Moxyland makes a refreshing and thought-provoking debut. It shares the jazzy language associated with early masters like Gibson and Sterling, but the technology in her world is necessary for survival, sometimes a point of pride, and often dangerous.’

– Strange Horizons

‘Moxyland is bewilderingly fast-paced, slick; a nextgeneration cyberpunk that gets the heart pounding. I can’t wait to read the next one… definitely a must-read.’

– Hub

‘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

‘A brilliant debut that paints a harsh but strangely realistic portrait of tomorrow with a grace rarely seen in comparable works. Make no mistake: Moxyland is a work of art.’

– Stomping on Yeti

‘Beukes has taken a hundred interesting ideas, about the politics of oppression and subversion, the pervasiveness of technology, the conflation of virtual and actual identities, and created a plausible future.’

– Bureau 42

‘Moxyland is a highly charged, imaginative and emphatic story that manages to both impress and disturb at the same time.’

– Science Fiction & Fantasy

‘A superlative narrative blending GMOs, ICT, drugs, nanotech, bio-weapons while remaining ultra-hip and humane. The dazzling denouement was credible. I can’t wait to read what Lauren Beukes comes up with next.’

– Slowhub

‘Moxyland is 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

‘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

‘You don’t have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas and deadly serious.’

– Mail & Guardian

‘George Orwell’s 1984 meets Bladerunner. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness.’

– Margie Orford, author of Like Clockwork

‘Beukes’s stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath.’

– Heat Magazine, South Africa (July 2008)

‘Lauren Beukes bleeds her characters of color as effectively as the smear masks they wear for anonymity, not for simple provocation, but to warn of the self-replicating nature of segregation.’

– Brendan Byrne, The Brooklyn Rail

‘[Moxyland] is recommended for what might very well be the emergence of a major new science-fiction author.’

– Alan Cranis, www.bookgasm.com

‘After the first hundred pages, I would have to say that reading Moxyland is like riding backward very fast in a convertible.’

– J. Robert King