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e_phemerart91) Beukes, Lauren. ZOO CITY. AngryRobot: 2010
Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, in which people who have committed a crime are magically attached to an animal familiar. The novel's protagonist, Zinzi December is a former journalist and recovering drug addict, who was "animalled" to a sloth after getting her brother killed. She is now attempting to repay the financial debt she owes her drug dealer by charging people for her special skill of finding lost objects, as well as making use of her writing abilities by drafting 419 fraud emails. The book mixes refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together into a riveting dark noir.
Sort of Blade Runner-esque, hard boiled sf. I liked it. Of course, how could I not like a book featuring a sloth as a magical familiar that was well reviewed by boingboing?
http://boingboing.net/2010/11/05/zoo-city-hard-boiled.html review by Cory Doctorow
Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, in which people who have committed a crime are magically attached to an animal familiar. The novel's protagonist, Zinzi December is a former journalist and recovering drug addict, who was "animalled" to a sloth after getting her brother killed. She is now attempting to repay the financial debt she owes her drug dealer by charging people for her special skill of finding lost objects, as well as making use of her writing abilities by drafting 419 fraud emails. The book mixes refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together into a riveting dark noir.
Sort of Blade Runner-esque, hard boiled sf. I liked it. Of course, how could I not like a book featuring a sloth as a magical familiar that was well reviewed by boingboing?
http://boingboing.net/2010/11/05/zoo-city-hard-boiled.html review by Cory Doctorow
