MoxylandJacana Media, 2008 - 239 pages A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. 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; and 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, this story crackles 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, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 22 |
Section 4 | 35 |
Section 5 | 47 |
Section 6 | 54 |
Section 7 | 59 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 23 | 153 |
Section 24 | 156 |
Section 25 | 175 |
Section 26 | 184 |
Section 27 | 186 |
Section 28 | 188 |
Section 29 | 190 |
Section 30 | 192 |
Section 9 | 76 |
Section 10 | 83 |
Section 11 | 87 |
Section 12 | 98 |
Section 13 | 106 |
Section 14 | 110 |
Section 15 | 115 |
Section 16 | 118 |
Section 17 | 123 |
Section 18 | 127 |
Section 19 | 139 |
Section 20 | 142 |
Section 21 | 145 |
Section 22 | 148 |
Section 31 | 194 |
Section 32 | 200 |
Section 33 | 206 |
Section 34 | 210 |
Section 35 | 213 |
Section 36 | 217 |
Section 37 | 219 |
Section 38 | 224 |
Section 39 | 227 |
Section 40 | 228 |
Section 41 | 231 |
Section 42 | 234 |
Section 43 | 238 |
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