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by Lauren Beukes

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A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. A young architect’s life is derailed by an inquisitive girl who happens to be a ghost. Loyalty to a favorite product can be addictive when it gets under your skin. In her edgy and satiric debut collection, award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls) never holds back. Ranging from Johannesburg to outer space, Beukes is a fierce and captivating presence in the literary landscape. **Review Praise for The Shining Girls “Thus begins The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes’s strong contender for the role of this summer’s universal beach read. Ms. Beukes is a South African whose earlier works have been closer to hard-core science fiction, but The Shining Girls is pure thriller.” —New York Times “I’m all over it.” —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl “Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special.” —Tana French, author of In the Woods “Talented Cape Town writer Lauren Beukes has managed to turn such borrowing and theft into a triumph in her new novel, The Shining Girls. It’s her third book, and a marvelous narrative feat that spans the history of Chicago from the 1930s to the 1990s.” —NPR “Clever story, smart prose” —Stephen King, author of The Stand “[Beukes] is so profusely talented—capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page—that a blockbuster seems inevitable . . . The Shining Girls marks her arrival as a major writer of popular fiction.” —USA Today “The premise is pure Stephen King, but Beukes gives it an intricate, lyrical treatment all her own.” —Time “Unreservedly recommended.” —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box “One of the summer’s hottest books.” —Wired “Very smart . . . completely kick-ass. Beukes’ handling of the joints between the realistic and the fantastic is masterful, and those are always my favorite parts, in this kind of story.” —William Gibson, author of Neuromancer "Brilliant. A book about the duel of two fabulously realized characters. A triumph." —Independent "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 “If our words are bullets, Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners, firing her ideas and images into us with a sly and deadly accuracy, wasting nothing, never missing.” —Bill Willingham, creator of Fables “[A]n act of unadulterated literature.” —Matthew du Plessis, Times Live “. . . disturbingly, hauntingly, uncompromisingly brilliant.” —Jonno Cohen, MiniMonologues “At times the witty and lyrical prose is sheer magic, the story captivating and the characters exotic, cruel and beautiful while the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner, Zoo City is quite simply captivating.” —SciFi & Fantasy Books “We all know there is a fine line between genius and madness. So it is with Zoo City . . . a story that is remarkable for both its inventiveness and the sharpness of its writing.” —Jason Baki, Kamvision “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 . . . [it] holds up a mirror to those who rabidly hit refresh in search of more dehumanizing gore and those who wish to be a star in the atrocity exhibition.” —Los Angeles Times “Never exploitative, never superficial, never uncomplicated: Beukes shows how horror can be the best way to explain our unbelievable reality. She uses the mode like the knife that opens the oyster.” —The Guardian “ . . . this wickedly unpleasant thriller has a rare and intriguing capacity to make the reader think.” —The Telegraph About the Author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls) is an internationally award-winning and bestselling South African author. Her novels include Broken Monsters, Zoo City, and Moxyland. Her graphic novel work includes Vertigo’s Survivor’s Club, the Fables spin-off Fairest, and Wonder Woman. Beukes’s nonfiction has been published in magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire, and Elle. Her fiction has won praise from the likes of Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, James Ellroy, Gillian Flynn, and her writing has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her books have been regularly featured in best of the year roundups by outlets such as NPR, Amazon, and the Los Angeles Times. Amongst her many honors, Beukes has received the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the University of Johannesburg prize, and the Strand Critics Choice Award. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.