Review
Lauren Beukes is Raymond Chandler crossed with Jeff Noon. I loved it, it's going to be huge. --Paul Cornell
Product Description
Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Novel.
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things.
To save herself, she’s got to find the hardest thing of all: the truth.
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]
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Zoo City is a fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer… [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it.
- Cory Doctorow
“Beukes (Moxyland) delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the “urban fantasy” subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots.”
- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“An energetic and imaginative fusion of sci-fi, fantasy and noir thriller… Beukes has created a convincing and frequently disturbing world, while also looking at the lost and the marginalised through the eyes of a compelling, believably flawed protagonist… Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre.
5 ***** – and an “SFX Recommends” badge.”
- SFX Magazine
“Lauren Beukes stuns with a richly textured venture into a pseudo-fantastical Johannesburg of the future… this is a fine novel that will wrap itself around your imagination like a sloth on your own shoulders.
4**** – Must Read Now”
- SciFi Now Magazine
“Down these mean streets a woman with a magic animal must go. You’ll want to go there too. Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon
crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it’s going to be huge.”
- Paul Cornell
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things.
To save herself, she’s got to find the hardest thing of all: the truth.
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]
--
Zoo City is a fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer… [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it.
- Cory Doctorow
“Beukes (Moxyland) delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the “urban fantasy” subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots.”
- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“An energetic and imaginative fusion of sci-fi, fantasy and noir thriller… Beukes has created a convincing and frequently disturbing world, while also looking at the lost and the marginalised through the eyes of a compelling, believably flawed protagonist… Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre.
5 ***** – and an “SFX Recommends” badge.”
- SFX Magazine
“Lauren Beukes stuns with a richly textured venture into a pseudo-fantastical Johannesburg of the future… this is a fine novel that will wrap itself around your imagination like a sloth on your own shoulders.
4**** – Must Read Now”
- SciFi Now Magazine
“Down these mean streets a woman with a magic animal must go. You’ll want to go there too. Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon
crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it’s going to be huge.”
- Paul Cornell
