Moxyland

Critics Review

• A technicolour jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell …Like A Clockwork Orange, this book has the makings of a cult success

  André Brink

• A great read, fast-paced, witty, sussed and sexy. It snaps and pops with neologisms and geek-speak, and fizzes and buzzes with gadgetry and techno-toys.

  Michiel Heyns, The Sunday Independent

• The larval form of a new kind of SF munching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk

  Charles Stross

• Beukes has created an imaginary world that captures the social realities of our time. As entertaining as MOXYLAND is, it is also profound and, dare I say, important …

  J Robert King, author of Angel of Death

• Lean, sharp, and tightly written, MOXYLAND keeps raising the stakes, from the opening chapter to the uncompromising finale. And with its electronic panopticon, it gives us a dystopia to rival 1984 or Stand On Zanzibar – a future horrifying for its very plausibility

  Gareth L Powell

• Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I’m all over it

  Gillian Flynn

• I recommend it highly

  Paul Cornell

• You don’t have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas and deadly serious

  The Mail and Guardian

• Moulds language to its own purpose so shockingly, is so gripping and so disturbing, that it will become, in time, a classic … Sassy, bold, inventive, believable, deeply engaging and overtly, sublimely political, MOXYLAND will draw to itself a wide and appreciative audience

  Psychologies

• Beukes’s stunningly original sci-fi thriller chills and thrills to the last breath

  Heat

• The world Beukes has invented is both eerily familiar and creepily different

  Cosmopolitan

• If you’re a fan of any kind of science fiction, you’ll find something in MOXYLAND to delight you

  Marie Claire

• This fast-paced sci-fi trip has intriguing characters, big ideas, a new lexicon and … serves as a global warning

  GQ

• Beukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the ‘urban fantasy’ sub-genre back towards its ground breakingroots

  Publisher's Weekly, starred review

• George Orwell’s 1984 meets Bladerunner. Lauren Beukes breaks new literary ground with effortless hipness

  Like Clockwork

• Moxyland does lots of things, masterfully, that lots of SF never even guesses that it could be doing

  Neuromancer