Interview with Lauren Beukes
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Photographer: Fiona Royds. Creative Director: Georgia Gardner. Used by kind permission of Obrigado Magazine.
We all know Lauren (left) as the talented author of Moxyland, but did you know that she also surfs professionally? No? Well, that’s because I just made it up, but she does have a lot of interesting things to say about the technology that inspired Moxyland, and the world of corporate politics. Head on over to ProBenny to find out more.
Photograph used because we haven’t used it in a while.
BA: The virtual violence seems to escalate through the book. From
kiddies fantasy land to immersive Quake style first person shooter
until it eventually breaks into the real world through Scorpions
Elite. Are you saying virtual violence leads to the real thing?LB: Absolutely not. It’s the other way round. The violence in the games, even in
a kids’ gameworld as saccharine and innocent as KiwiPop (what Toby calls
Moxyland) is a reflection of the real world. That’s really what the book is
about, this glossy cute pop veneer over the dark undercurrents of our
society that rush fast and deep and will suck you under.
