A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. An art-school dropout, and 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. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight.
File Under: Science Fiction [ Digital Natives - Corporate Wars - Future - Teenage Riot ]
E-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-005-3
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A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. An art-school dropout, and 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. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight.
File Under: Science Fiction [ Digital Natives - Corporate Wars - Future - Teenage Riot ]
E-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-005-3
Imprint | Angry Robot |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Series | Angry Robot |
Release date | September 2010 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | August 2010 |
Authors | Lauren Beukes |
Dimensions | 175 x 106 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 377 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-85766-004-6 |
Barcode | 9780857660046 |
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LSN | 0-85766-004-7 |