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A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. Corporate recruits harvest poisonous plants on an inhospitable planet. An inquisitive adolescent ghost disrupts the life of a young architect. Product loyalty is addictive when the brand appears under one's skin.Award-winning Cape Town author and journalist Lauren Beukes (Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters) spares no targets in this edgy and satiric retrospective collection. In her fiction and nonfiction, ranging from Johannesburg across the galaxy, Beukes is a fierce, captivating presence throughout the literary landscape.
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Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comicswriter and occasional journalist.She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in afantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Herprevious works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in CapeTown under corporate apartheid. She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: TheAdventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for DisneyUK and Millimages in France.Follow her on Twitter: @laurenbeukesPhoto Casey Crafford
