Another “Best Fiction” nom for Slights, and Zoo City’s first review.
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After yesterday’s big announcement it’s business as usual at Angry Robot Towers. Just the way we like it!
Slights has been nominated in the “Best First Fiction” category in the Ned Kelly Awards. The “neddies” are presented by the Crime Writers Association of Australia, and celebrate all that is great in Australian crime fiction.
And the first review of Lauren Beukes’ eagerly-anticipated second novel Zoo City is in. Here’s a sample:
While Zoo City still has an edge, it’s more lyrical than Moxyland. And it has magic. Urban fantasy, for one of the most interesting definitions of the term… The fantasy elements are familiar. Justine Larbalestier’s How to Ditch Your Fairy carried through to its full dangerous potential; Pullman’s external souls in an adult world. Beukes handles them in her way and their familiarity doesn’t matter.
Moxyland was excellent. Zoo City is better. Neither of them are comfort reading.
Yeah.
