(eng) Lauren Beukes

✍ Scribed by Lauren Beukes

• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa--Cape Town.
• ISBN: 0857660047

✦ Synopsis

FANTASY. A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. An art-school dropout, and AIDS baby, a tech-activist and an RPG-obsessed blogger live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment, but someone's got to stand up to Government Inc. - whatever the cost. 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.

✦ Subjects

South Africa -- Cape Town