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Moxyland
Moxyland | Lauren Beukes
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.
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bekakins
Moxyland (Revised) | Lauren Beukes
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Really enjoyed my second #roll100 read for March! A scarily prescient dystopian novel worth an eclectic bunch of characters. Short, far paced, and lots of interesting thoughts on phones, connectedness, robots, nanotechnology and corpocracy.

PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 8mo
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Minervasbutler
Moxyland (Revised) | Lauren Beukes
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Frightening and all too believable dystopia set in an imagined South Africa of 2018. We're in a world where the mega corporations are in league with a repressive government , where people undergo invasive treatments which turn them into walking billboards, where serious crime is punished by denying the criminal access to the internet, without which even buying a subway ticket is rendered impossible. Excellent.

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ohyeahthatgirl
Moxyland | Lauren Beukes
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Friday niiiight!

New books, cheetos, gin & tonic.

readordierachel Nice! I'm jealous of your Friday night :) 7y
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CherylDeFranceschi
Moxyland (Revised) | Lauren Beukes
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#TBR Tuesday. That, "oh, that's what stack that was hiding in moment".

MrBook #NiceStack! 😊👍🏻 8y
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