Lauren Beukes

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology that showcases the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction across the globe-including Junot Diaz, Victor LaValle, Lauren Beukes, N. K. Jemisin, Rabih Alameddine, S. P. Somtow, and more. These authors have earned such literary honors as the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker, among others.

Read the mind-bending masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss.'Addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner' Guardian'A high-concept page-turner' Herald'Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers' Spectator----THERE ARE INFINITE REALITIES.SHE’S LOOKING FOR ONE . . .Bridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind.Which is when she finds her big secret: the dreamworm.Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds?Jo believed so.Bridge is desperate to see her mother again. Will do anything, risk anything. Including search for her in those other realities.What she doesn't know is that others are after Jo's secret. And some believe anyone it touches must be destroyed.Bridge? She just wants to find her mom . . .Page-turning and ambitious, BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.----'You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.' - The New York Times'An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.' – Guardian'Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.' - SFX

The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss.'Addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner' - Guardian'A high-concept page-turner' - The Herald'Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers' - The Spectator--Bridge's maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.Now she's examining everything Jo left behind.Which is when she finds her big secret.Is it a drug?A gateway to other worlds?Jo believed so.Bridge is desperate to see her mother again.Will do anything, risk anything.Including search for her in those other realities.What she doesn't know is that othersare after Jo's secret. And some believe anyoneit touches must be destroyed.Bridge? She just wants to find her mom ...Page-turning and ambitious, BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.--'You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.' - The New York Times'An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.' – Guardian'Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.' - SFX

A grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in this dazzling new thriller from the author of The Shining Girls that is "sheer thrilling madness with a big, beating heart that reminds us we're all connected" (Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author). There are infinite realities. She's looking for one . . . Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with her daughter. But in packing up Jo's house, Bridge discovers Jo's obsession hidden amongst her things. And the dreamworm works, exactly the way it's supposed to, the way Bridge remembers from when she was a little girl. Suddenly Bridge can step into other realities, otherselves. In one of them, could she find out what really happened to her mother? What Bridge doesn't know is that there are others hunting for the dreamworm--who will kill to get their hands on it. Bridge is a highly original, reality-bending thrill-ride that could only have come from the brilliant mind of award-winning novelist, Lauren Beukes, about mothers and daughters, hunters and seekers, and who we each choose to be. "A fantastic high-wire act of a novel . . . at once a cosmic narrative and a deeply intimate human story." --Catriona Ward "Ass-kicking, mind-bending entertainment." --Kirkus Reviews "A suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all." --Katie Gutierrez "Spiders out into alternate universes yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now." --Paul Tremblay "Lauren Beukes is a major, major talent." --George R. R. Martin

VINNARE AV ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD! Zinzi December har en Sengångare på ryggen, försörjer sig på nätbedrägerier och har en särskild talang för att hitta försvunna föremål. När en äldre kvinna hittas död dras hon in i ett virrvarr av försvunna personer. Skuldsatt upp över öronen åtar hon sig motvilligt ett uppdrag. Hon anlitas av den tillbakadragne musikproducenten Odi Huron för att hitta den försvunna popstjärnan Songweza. En möjlig biljett ut ur Zoo City, ett av Johannesburgs värsta slumområden där den kriminella underklassen och deras djur lever i skuggorna. Djur som på något mystiskt vis bundits till dem för all framtid. Men istället kastas Zinzi allt djupare in i stadens mörker fylld av kriminalitet och magi, där hon tvingas konfrontera dolda hemligheter från sitt tidigare liv. Lauren Beukes originella Arthur C Clarke Award-vinnande roman Zoo City liknar inget annat du tidigare läst.

Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King). Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues--but a world run by women isn't always a better place. Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie--all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home. To get there, Cole and Miles must journey across a changed America in disguise as mother and daughter. From a military base in Seattle to a luxury bunker, from an anarchist commune in Salt Lake City to a roaming cult that's all too ready to see Miles as the answer to their prayers, the two race to stay ahead at every step . . . even as Billie and her sinister crew draw closer. A sharply feminist, high-stakes thriller from award-winning author Lauren Beukes, Afterland brilliantly blends psychological suspense, American noir, and science fiction into an adventure all its own--and perfect for our times.

THE INTELLIGENT NEW POST-APOCALYPTIC THRILLER ABOUT A WOMAN FIGHTING TO SAVE HER SON'A smartly written thriller that opens with a satisfying bang . . .splendid' STEPHEN KING'Powerful and intelligent' GUARDIAN'A major, major talent' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN_______A WORLD OF WOMENA MOTHER AND SON ON THE RUNThree years after a virus wiped out most men on earth, Cole's son, Miles, is one of the rare survivors. Yet in this changed world, there are women who would kill to get their hands on that most prized commodity - a living boy. Getting Miles to safety means crossing America with deadly pursuers hot on their heels - including Cole's own sister, Billie. But if there are some who will commit any crime to possess Miles, Cole must face some terrible choices to protect her son . . . _______The powerful and intelligent new thriller from the author of Richard and Judy bestseller The Shining Girls and the prize-winning Zoo CityIncluded in 'Best Books of Summer 2020' in Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly and Oprah Magazine_______'Bowstring-taut, visceral, and incredibly timely: Beukes's plague-tale is a parable about the glory and terror of Americanism in times of calamity' Cory Doctorow'A fast-moving thriller [that] splices gut-punching action sequences and feminist gender politics with an impressively light touch. Bubbles with big ideas. This intelligent speculative novel about a pandemic feels alarmingly close to home' Metro'Afterland is that rare creature, a ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers' New Scientist 'Lauren Beukes is a writer with a startling imagination, and a masterful ability to rewrite the rules of whatever genre she turns to' Ben Winters, author of Underground Airlines and Golden State

Scritte dalle migliori autrici di fantascienza contemporanea - tra cui Elizabeth Bear, Vandana Singh, Gu Shi, Lauren Beukes, Madeline Ashby e Malka Older - queste storie sono ambientate in un futuro in cui la tecnologia ha contribuito a svelare i segreti degli oceani. I racconti - curati da Eric Desatnik della fondazione XPRIZE - portano i lettori a "tuffarsi" in mezzo ad alcune delle innovazioni pi promettenti di oggi che potrebbero avere un impatto positivo sulle condizioni future degli oceani. L'antologia Correnti future include 18 storie originali scritte da autrici provenienti da tutto il mondo, le quali hanno esplorato una variet di argomenti tra cui: tecnologie per ricostruire le barriere coralline; impianti neurali che consentono di comunicare con i delfini attraverso immagini mentali; robot che recuperano il petrolio dall'acqua; isole artificiali costruite per resistere agli uragani; spedizioni in acque profonde in realt aumentata e altro ancora. "Correnti future serve a ricordarci il mistero e la maestosit dell'oceano, a stabilirne il fondamentale bisogno di scoperta e di gestione e a infondere un senso di speranza per il futuro dell'oceano". Eric Desatnik INDICE DEI RACCONTIMADRE OCEANO di Vandana SinghPARLARE PER IMMAGINI di Sheila FinchIMPROVVISAZIONI SU UN RICHIAMO OCEANICO di Rochita Loenen-LuizRIMPATRIO di Nalo HopkinsonTAPPETI GALLEGGIANTI di Mohale MashigoACERI DI MARE di Marie LuLANTERNE SOLIDE E SCALETTE di Malka OlderLOTO BLU di Madeline AshbyLA SUA SECONDA PELLE DI FOCA di Lauren BeukesHAVEN di Karen LordIL CORPO RICORDA di Kameron HurleyLA PICCOLA PASTORELLA di Gwyneth JonesPOESIE E TERRE DISTANTI di Gu ShiMARGINI MORBIDI di Elizabeth BearOSCURIT SALMASTRA di Deborah BiancottiIL MARE FURIOSO ABBASTANZA PER ME di Catherynne M. ValenteAVERE E POSSEDERE di Brenda PeynadoRESIDENTI MERIDIONALI di Brenda Cooper

FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLSIn a troubling, near-future Cape Town four broken people try to carve out a place for themselves before a brutal storm of change hits them . . .'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it' GILLIAN FLYNN_______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.Four hurt and damaged individuals trying to make lives for themselves in a broken, uncertain future. But as events send them on a collision course their worlds are about to change in unexpected - and explosive - ways._______'You don't have to be an SF aficionado to love this novel that is fast, brimming with original ideas' Guardian'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin

FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND BRAND NEW APPLE TV HIT SHINING GIRLSWINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD'A major, major talent' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN_______Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheque, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job - missing persons.Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions reside.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._______'Beukes is very *very* good. It feels effortless, utterly accomplished' William Gibson'Beukes brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now' Guardian'Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled. An enormously satisfying novel' New York Times Book Review

A speculative fiction safari that riffs on the traditional ideals of automata to explore our strange and competitive relationship with the natural world. Biomimicry is no stranger to literature, with canonical authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Anderson, and Jules Verne setting the tone for a trope that has expounded and expanded upon what exactly separates humans from the animal kingdom as well as the boundary between machines and living beings. Featuring 15 original stories by today's top science fiction and fantasy authors and contextual mecha-fauna essays by artist and Insect Lab Studio maker, Mike Libby, and SF encyclopedist and author Jess Nevins, Mechanical Animals presents a biomimicry menagerie of animalistic machines that will blur the lines between what is and isn't nature's design.Edited by Selena Chambers and Jason HellerFeaturing: Mike Libby Jess Nevins Tessa Kum Delia Sherman Maurice Broaddus Sarah Hans Lauren Beukes Jesse Bullington An Owomoyela Stephen Graham Jones Hans Christian Andersen Molly Tanzer Aliette de Bodard Nick Mamatas Nathaniel Hawthorne Kat Howard Michael Cisco Adrian Van Young Robert T. Toombs Joseph S. Pulver, Jr. Alistair Rennie Jules Verne Caroline Yoachim Carrie Vaughn

Zinzillä on selässään laiskiainen, taito kirjoittaa toimivia nigerialaiskirjeitä ja maaginen kyky löytää kadonneita esineitä. Kun hänen viimeisin asiakkaansa, vanha nainen, kuolee ja poliisi takavarikoi hänen palkkionsa, Zinzin on suostuttava tehtävään jota hän inhoaa: etsimään kadonnutta henkilöä.Salamyhkäinen musiikkituottaja Odi Huron palkkaa hänet etsimään kadonnutta teinitähteä ja keikka saattaa olla Zinzin tie vapauteen, pois Zoo Cityn saastaisesta slummista jossa rikolliset eläinkumppaneineen elävät helvetillisen Pohjavirran pelossa.Sen sijaan tehtävä sinkoaa Zinzin yhä syvemmälle rikosten ja taikuuden vääristämän kaupungin ytimeen, jossa hänen on kohdattava elettyjen elämien synkät salaisuudet - myös omansa.Zoo City on hyytävän terävä ja oivaltavan kepeä sekoitus urbaania fantasiaa, koukuttavaa trilleriä ja Etelä-Afrikan nykytodellisuutta. Teos on palkittu Arthur C. Clarke -palkinnolla vuoden parhaana scifi- ja fantasiakirjana.Lauren Beukes on eteläafrikkalainen kirjailija, käsikirjoittaja ja vastentahtoisesti välillä myös toimittaja. Taustatutkimuksen nimissä Beukes on muun muassa hypännyt lentokoneesta mereen haiden sekaan, opetellut tankotanssia sekä hengaillut teinivampyyrien, lainsuojattomien, aids-aktivistien ja kodittomien seksityöläisten kanssa. Zoo City on palkittu Arthur C. Clarke -palkinnolla vuoden parhaana scifiteoksena.

Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable 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.

A new 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.

Jos sanat ovat luoteja, Lauren Beukes on tarkka-ampuja humalaisten konekiväärimiesten keskellä. BILL WILLINGHAMZinzillä on selässään laiskiainen, taito kirjoittaa toimivia nigerialaiskirjeitä ja maaginen kyky löytää kadonneita esineitä. Kun hänen viimeisin asiakkaansa, vanha nainen, kuolee ja poliisi takavarikoi hänen palkkionsa, Zinzin on suostuttava tehtävään jota hän inhoaa: etsimään kadonnutta henkilöä.Salamyhkäinen musiikkituottaja Odi Huron palkkaa hänet etsimään kadonnutta teinitähteä ja keikka saattaa olla Zinzin tie vapauteen, pois Zoo Cityn saastaisesta slummista jossa rikolliset eläinkumppaneineen elävät helvetillisen pohjavirran pelossa.Sen sijaan tehtävä sinkoaa Zinzin yhä syvemmälle rikosten ja taikuuden vääristämän kaupungin ytimeen, jossa hänen on kohdattava elettyjen elämien synkät salaisuudet myös omansa.ZOO CITY on hyytävän terävä ja oivaltavan kepeä sekoitus urbaania fantasiaa, koukuttavaa trilleriä ja Etelä-Afrikan nykytodellisuutta. Teos palkittiin Arthur C. Clarke -palkinnolla vuoden parhaana scifi- ja fantasiakirjana.