Reviews
Praise for Slipping "Lauren Beukes is one of the most talented writers working today. Moving from witty to sad to horrifying, she makes it all seem effortless. We're lucky to finally have her short work in one place." --Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series and The Everything Box " Slipping is a rare surprise, and one that demonstrates Beukes wide-ranging talent. Whether she''s writing about corporate branded future punks and celebrants, or the downtrodden casual menaces of daily life, from a compilation of tweets to a handful of remarkable non-fiction essays, her stories prove, repeatedly, that she is a masterful writer and that she has a voice that absolutely must be heard. Hold on tight to this one--you do not want it to slip away." --Michael Patrick Hicks, author of Emergence Praise for The Shining Girls "I'm all over it." --Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl "Lauren Beukes's strong contender for the role of this summer's universal beach read . . . The Shining Girls is pure thriller." -- New York Times "Talented Cape Town writer Lauren Beukes has managed to turn such borrowing and theft into a triumph in her new novel." -- NPR "Unreservedly recommended." --Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box "One of the summer's hottest books." -- Wired "Completely kick-ass." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer "From something horrific and inexplicable, she makes delicate and redemptive magic." -- Chicago Tribune "Disturbing, smart and beautifully written" --Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus "Science fiction and psychological thriller collide spectacularly in this heart-thumping tale of a time-traveling serial killer" -- Entertainment Weekly "Imagine Poe and Steinbeck in a knife fight where Poe wins and writes Jack the Ripper's version of The Grapes of Wrath . The Shining Girls is even scarier than that." --Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim Praise for Zoo Story "Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas." --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review " 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, author of Little Brother "[STAR] 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 "Disturbingly, hauntingly, uncompromisingly brilliant." --Jonno Cohen, MiniMonologues "Lauren Beukes brings to Zoo City the observant, cynical eye for the intersection of media, business, and pop culture that animated her debut, Moxyland, and pairs it with a funny, colloquial, and casually poetic first-person narrator and thriller pacing to take urban fantasy to the next level." -- Ideomancer Praise for Moxyland "The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different." -- Cosmopolitan "You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas and deadly serious." -- Mail & Guardian "George Orwell's 1984 meets Bladerunner . Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness." --Margie Orford, author of Like Clockwork "Beukes's stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath." -- Heat Magazine Praise for Broken Monsters "Beukes' captivating Broken Monsters defies the standard tropes of the serial killer genre to become a thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller." -- Los Angeles Times "Never exploitative, never superficial, never uncomplicated: Beukes shows how horror can be the best way to explain our unbelievable reality." -- The Guardian "This wickedly unpleasant thriller has a rare and intriguing capacity to make the reader think." -- The Telegraph, Praise for The Shining Girls "I'm all over it." --Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl "Lauren Beukes's strong contender for the role of this summer's universal beach read . . . The Shining Girls is pure thriller." -- New York Times "Talented Cape Town writer Lauren Beukes has managed to turn such borrowing and theft into a triumph in her new novel." -- NPR "Unreservedly recommended." --Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box "One of the summer's hottest books." -- Wired "Completely kick-ass." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer "From something horrific and inexplicable, she makes delicate and redemptive magic." -- Chicago Tribune "Disturbing, smart and beautifully written" --Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus "Science fiction and psychological thriller collide spectacularly in this heart-thumping tale of a time-traveling serial killer" -- Entertainment Weekly "Imagine Poe and Steinbeck in a knife fight where Poe wins and writes Jack the Ripper's version of The Grapes of Wrath . The Shining Girls is even scarier than that." --Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim Praise for Zoo Story "Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas." --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review " 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, author of Little Brother "[STAR] 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 "Disturbingly, hauntingly, uncompromisingly brilliant." --Jonno Cohen, MiniMonologues "Lauren Beukes brings to Zoo City the observant, cynical eye for the intersection of media, business, and pop culture that animated her debut, Moxyland, and pairs it with a funny, colloquial, and casually poetic first-person narrator and thriller pacing to take urban fantasy to the next level." -- Ideomancer Praise for Moxyland "The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different." -- Cosmopolitan "You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas and deadly serious." -- Mail & Guardian "George Orwell's 1984 meets Bladerunner . Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness." --Margie Orford, author of Like Clockwork "Beukes's stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath." -- Heat Magazine Praise for Broken Monsters "Beukes' captivating Broken Monsters defies the standard tropes of the serial killer genre to become a thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller." -- Los Angeles Times "Never exploitative, never superficial, never uncomplicated: Beukes shows how horror can be the best way to explain our unbelievable reality." -- The Guardian "This wickedly unpleasant thriller has a rare and intriguing capacity to make the reader think." -- The Telegraph