A private eye reluctantly goes looking for a missing pair of teenage pop stars in an alternate-future Johannesburg in Lauren Beukes' Zoo City.
Beukes' genre-bender is sort of a whacked-out Chinatown, with telepathy and arcane magic, what might happen if William Gibson wrote The Little Sister. But it has a very hip, contemporary vibe (as I saw in Beukes' Broken Monsters, the first novel I read from her) and an admirable, believable bit of world-building.
I will be grateful that I spent a year reading only women authors if for no other reason than I discovered South African author Lauren Beukes. I will continue to look for her work.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly. Recommended for fans of hard-boiled noir, near-future sci-fi, or some combination of both.
Beukes' genre-bender is sort of a whacked-out Chinatown, with telepathy and arcane magic, what might happen if William Gibson wrote The Little Sister. But it has a very hip, contemporary vibe (as I saw in Beukes' Broken Monsters, the first novel I read from her) and an admirable, believable bit of world-building.
I will be grateful that I spent a year reading only women authors if for no other reason than I discovered South African author Lauren Beukes. I will continue to look for her work.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly. Recommended for fans of hard-boiled noir, near-future sci-fi, or some combination of both.
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