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Moxyland

Lauren Beukes
Moxyland Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316267908

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Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable that follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid. Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, these characters crackle with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, Lauren Beukes spins a tale of a utopia gone wrong, satirically undermining the idea of progress as society's white knight.

Zoo City

Lauren Beukes
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Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316267939

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Zoo City by Lauren Beukes Pdf

A new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite kind of job--missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives--including her own.

Broken Monsters

Lauren Beukes
Broken Monsters Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316216838

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Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Pdf

"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." --Stephen King A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe--and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.

Afterland

Lauren Beukes
Afterland Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415210598

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In a future where most of the men are dead, Cole and her twelve-year-old son Miles are on the run from the most dangerous person she knows ... her sister. Miles is one of the lucky survivors of a global epidemic. But, in a world of women, that also makes him a hot commodity. The Department of Men wants to lock him away in quarantine, forever, maybe. A sinister cult of neon nuns wants to claim him for their own; the answer to their prayers. And boy traffickers are close on their heels, thanks to Billie, Cole’s ruthless sister, who Cole thought she left for dead. In a desperate chase across a radically changed America, Cole will do whatever it takes to get Miles to safety. Because she’s all he’s got.

The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes
The Shining Girls Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007464630

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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Pdf

The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. ‘GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived’ (The Times).

Slipping

Lauren Beukes
Slipping Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616962418

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Slipping by Lauren Beukes Pdf

A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. A young architect’s life is derailed by an inquisitive girl who happens to be a ghost. Loyalty to a favorite product can be addictive when it gets under your skin. In her edgy and satiric debut collection, award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls) never holds back. Ranging from Johannesburg to outer space, Beukes is a fierce and captivating presence in the literary landscape.

Post-Apartheid Gothic

Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
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Author : Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932468

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Post-Apartheid Gothic by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain Pdf

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identities in their fiction. Joseph-Vilain argues that the literary representations of emblematic places, real or imagined (the home, the farm, the city or the “non-places” of dystopia), express and reveal anxieties linked to the sharing of space in post-apartheid South Africa. The text successively (re-)visits the places that have been shaping South African white writing since Olive Schreiner’s African Farm—in other words, its topoi, both in the etymological sense of “place” and in the literary sense of recurring themes or arguments. Joseph-Vilain argues that these Gothicized topoi have provided writers with tools to explore the deep anxieties generated by the redefinition of South African society as the Rainbow Nation. While focusing specifically on the South African avatars of the Gothic and their interaction with local forms and genres like the plaasroman, the text also discusses the impact of globalization on South African literary, cultural, social, and political identities.

Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction

E. Smith
Globalization Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction Book PDF

Author : E. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137283573

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Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction by E. Smith Pdf

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

Zoo City

Lauren Beukes
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Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857660565

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WHERE NO ONE ELSE DARE VENTURE… Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit – and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her lastpaycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons An astonishing second novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed Moxyland. FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Black Magic Noir / Pale Crocodile / Spirit Guardians / Lost Stars]

Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative

Paul Crosthwaite
Criticism Crisis and Contemporary Narrative Book PDF

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136826429

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Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative by Paul Crosthwaite Pdf

The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But what is the role of literary and cultural criticism in conceptualizing this atmosphere of perpetual crisis? If, as Paul de Man maintained, criticism necessarily exists in a state of crisis, in what ways is this condition intensified at a time when the social formations within which criticism operates and the cultural artefacts that it takes as its objects are themselves pervaded by actual and imagined states of emergency? This book, the first sustained response to these questions, demonstrates the capacity of critical thought, working in dialogue with key narrative texts, to provide penetrating insights into a contemporary landscape of global, manufactured risk. Written by an international team of specialist scholars, the essays in the collection draw on a wide variety of contemporary theoretical, fictional, and cinematic sources, ranging from Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Fredric Jameson to Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, and Lauren Beukes to Ghost and the James Bond and National Treasure series. Appearing in the midst of a phase of extraordinary turbulence in the fabric of our interconnected and interdependent world, the book makes a landmark intervention in debates concerning the cultural ramifications of globalization.

Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture

Anna McFarlane,Graham J. Murphy,Lars Schmeink
Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture Book PDF

Author : Anna McFarlane,Graham J. Murphy,Lars Schmeink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000578614

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Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane,Graham J. Murphy,Lars Schmeink Pdf

A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day. The collection features key figures from a variety of disciplines, from novelists, critical and cultural theorists, philosophers, and scholars, to filmmakers, comic book artists, game creators, and television writers. Important and influential names discussed include: J. G. Ballard, Jean Baudrillard, Rosi Braidotti, Charlie Brooker, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Donna J. Haraway, Nalo Hopkinson, Janelle Monáe, Annalee Newitz, Katsuhiro Ōtomo, Sadie Plant, Mike Pondsmith, Ridley Scott, Bruce Sterling, and the Wachowskis. The editors also include an afterword of ‘Honorable Mentions’ to highlight additional figures and groups of note that have played a role in shaping cyberpunk. This accessible guide will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural studies, film studies, literature, media studies, as well as anyone with an interest in cyberpunk culture and science fiction.

Postcolonial Animalities

Suvadip Sinha,Amit R. Baishya
Postcolonial Animalities Book PDF

Author : Suvadip Sinha,Amit R. Baishya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000704778

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Postcolonial Animalities by Suvadip Sinha,Amit R. Baishya Pdf

Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "human" and considers the co-constitutiveness of imaginaries of the human with grammars of animality. One of the central contributions of this volume is to decolonize existing conceptualizations of the human-animal relationship, and to consider the material representation of animals within the realm of colonial and postcolonial cultural production from the perspective of ethical alterity and alternative narratives of anticolonial and postcolonial politics. The volume also explores entanglements of race and species in colonial and neocolonial frameworks without transforming such inquiries into a zero-sum game that privileges one category over another. The essays in the volume, focusing on multiple geographical locations ranging from South Asia, Southeast Asia, post-Ottoman Turkey, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa and Palestine/Israel, historicizes and understands multispecies, interspecies and transspecies encounters, affiliations and connections in and through their localized dimensions, and studies human-animal encounters in their varied and complex affective relationalities. Through such inquiries, the volume considers how modes of representing animals, including located forms of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, help us think-with and be-with different animals.

Maverick

Lauren Beukes
Maverick Book PDF

Author : Lauren Beukes
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781415206720

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Maverick by Lauren Beukes Pdf

From Africa’s first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention. Updated, expanded, and now with photographs, this edition of Lauren Beukes’s first book casts light onto the fascinating lives of some of South Africa’s most famous – and notorious – women.

The Creakers

Tom Fletcher
The Creakers Book PDF

Author : Tom Fletcher
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524773342

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The Creakers by Tom Fletcher Pdf

At night, this mischievous bunch peeks out from under your bed. When you hear that creak . . . creak . . . THE CREAKERS are there! Discover a hilarious and eerie middle-grade story by a UK star. What would you do if you woke up to a world with no grown-ups? When all the parents in the world disappear, most kids think this is amazing! They can finally run wild and eat candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But Lucy Dungston wants to get her mom back, especially because her dad disappeared not long ago. Lucy wants the truth, and she's convinced that the creaking sounds that come from under her bed can lead her to it. Creak . . . creak . . . That's when Lucy meets the Creakers, a bunch of sticky, smelly creatures who live under children's beds. This troublesome bunch has taken all the grown-ups to an upside-down world called the Woleb. Lucy must act fast if she wants to rescue the grown-ups, because adults who stay in the Woleb too long start becoming Creakers!

Herland Illustrated

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland Illustrated Book PDF

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728760186

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Herland Illustrated by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments as a serial in 1915 in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916, with its sequel, With Her in Ourland beginning immediately thereafter in the January 1916 issue. The book is often considered to be the middle volume in her utopian trilogy; preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911), and followed by, With Her in Ourland (1916). It was not published in book form until 1979.