Salon Futura Interviews Lauren Beukes

Salon Futura has a video interview with Lauren Beukes.

London Events for Lauren Beukes

South African writer Lauren Beukes will be in London this month, with no less than three exclusive events organised. Beukes is the author of Moxyland and Zoo City, both published by Angry Robot Books. From the Angry Robot team: To celebrate Lauren's visit we’ve teamed up with Forbidden Planet to bring you an Angry Robot first...

Times Live Profiles Lauren Beukes

Times Live profiles Lauren Beukes (who also has recently released her second novel, Zoo City). Here's an excerpt from the article: In Zoo City, Beukes imagines a Joburg that is frighteningly accurate and simultaneously impossible. Like her other fiction works, this one is fast, frenzied, twisted and breathtaking. With an international release scheduled for later...

Monday Original Content: SF in South Africa, by Nick Wood

SF in SA 10 (December 2009) With acknowledgement to prior publication in Locus Magazine, November 2009. South African speculative fiction over the ages In this overview of South African written science or speculative fiction (SF), I aim to give a socio-historical account of the progress of the genre, as the fiction produced over the decades...

Round Table: Environment and Background, Part Two

The second of our Original Content Mondays (with much more to come!), the second part of our first round table (the first part can be found here). Q: How, and to what extent, does your environment and background inform your writing? Rochita Loenen-Ruiz: Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer and the mother of two boys....

South African Science Fiction: Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland

A new debut from South Africa - Lauren Beukes' Moxyland has been described as "an ultra-smart thriller about technological progress, and the freedoms it removes. In the near future, four hip young things live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment...