Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

288 pages
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Published: 29 Nov 2016
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ISBN: 9781616962401

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Tachyon Publications

Publication date: 29 November 2016

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In her edgy, satiric debut collection, award-winning South African journalist and author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls, Moxyland) never holds back. Nothing is simple and everything is perilous when humans are involved: corruption, greed, and even love (of a sort).A permanent corporate branding gives a young woman enhanced physical abilities and a nearly-constant highRecruits lifted out of poverty find a far worse fate collecting biohazardous plants on an inhospitable worldThe only adult survivor of the apocalypse decides he will be the savior of teenagers; the teenagers are not amused.From Johannesburg to outer space, these previously uncollected tales are a compelling, dark, and slippery ride.