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What's really going on? Who's really in charge? You have NO. F***KING. IDEA. In the near future, an art-school dropout, an AIDS baby, a tech-activist, and an RPG-obsessed blogger live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment, but someone's got to stand up to Government Inc. - whatever the cost.

©2008 Lauren Beukes (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction
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This novel was firts published in 2008 and yet it's amazingly relevant and on point for all kinds of current issues. The main characters come from quite different places and experiences but they end up intersecting and collaborating in the fight against a repressive system. Influencers are enrolled to be injected and to then advertise experimental nanotech, while video-gamers end up actually killing people. The futuristic technological devices embedded in everyday life and physically part of people's bodies are systematically exploited by the goverment/corporation to control and suppress dissenting voices, to the point of erasing identites and of spreading dangerous poisons to identify rioters. A neverending series of surprising objects, techniques and ideas is presented and deeply connected to the plot and the characters' lives. A whirlwind of devices and people and fast narration captures the reader and makes this a remarkable novel.

Amazingly relevant and on point

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This is Lauren Beukes' first novel. I've read / listened to many of her others and this seems to be her at her most raw. The narrator is okay, possibly not the best choice for all the novel's perspective characters, which shift from chapter to chapter. Might have been better to use multiple narrators here. The story I found hard to follow at the beginning, mainly as it was difficult to discern the differences in voice of the reader, yet after a while I got on board with it. Many interesting ideas postulated in this dystopian cyberpunk world, and I sincerely hope none are appropriated by real world governments!

Hopefully life will not imitate art...

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This definitely sits well with We, 1984, Brave New World et al. A great set up, interesting characters, unexpected ending, richly textured world. Will be recommending to others.


The narrator's SA accent didn't bother me, but I wouldn't know if it was a bad SA accent anyway. It's consistent, which is good. His posh accents are a bit long on the Os, but okay. It is well narrated, he has good tone and pace.

Wow

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