Brand new editions of Zoo City and Moxyland are out in the USA this week, from my brilliant publisher Mulholland! It was also the perfect excuse to break out the sloth scarf I wore to the Arthur C Clarke Award ceremony five years ago! I love the playful, toothy rawness of the new Zoo City […]
The original horror comic I’m co-writing with Dale Halvorsen aka Joey Hi-Fi, with gorgeous, creepy, compelling art by Ryan Kelly, cinematic colors by Eva de la Cruz and lettering by Clem Robins, is getting some very nice shouts from comics pros we love! Survivors’ Club tells the story of six people who survived real-life horror […]
In happy news of the day, GGRM, he of A Song of Ice And Fire, rated Broken Monsters as one of nine novels he thinks you should be reading over at BookBub.com along with classics like The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin and Nova by Samuel R. Delaney and new releases including Armada by […]
A lovely review of Les Monstres on Les Pipelettes en Parlent “Ce que j’apprécie par-dessus tout chez elle, c’est son originalité. Lorsque vous lisez un de ses romans, vous êtes assuré de ne rien lire de commun. Si Les monstres semble de prime abord ne pas correspondre à cette qualité, je vous assure qu’il n’en […]
Broken Monsters it out in paperback in the UK today everywhere good books are sold! Watch the trailer online
The New York Times 26 October 2014 has a corking review of Broken Monsters (featuring art by one of my favourite illustrators, Francesco Francavilla). “An enormously satisfying novel that employs the best attributes of multiple genres to dramatize big ideas about art, the Internet and urban decay.” Here’s the review in full: The serial […]
Vice did a terrific review of Twelve Tomorrows MIT TechReview’s science fiction issue edited by Bruce Sterling. It’s got stories by William Gibson, Warren Ellis, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow and me! “Every year, the MIT Technology Review publishes Twelve Tomorrows, a special issue of the magazine devoted to science fiction. For those of us who pay attention to […]
Wow, wow, wow – NPR has a KILLER review of Broken Monsters today. “It’s hard to overstate how ambitious Broken Monsters is, maybe because Beukes somehow manages to make it look easy. Her prose is unhindered, exuberant, and something like addictive — you can tell yourself you’re just going to read one chapter, but before […]