Moxyland and Slights Reviews and Kaaron Warren Interview
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Some news about new signings coming soon, and possibly a competition or two, but until then, have a look at this great review. Lauren Beukes‘ Moxyland continues to impress. Over at everything2.com, they tell us that
Beukes has taken a hundred interesting ideas, about the politics of oppression and subversion, the pervasiveness of technology, the conflation of online and actual identities, and created a plausible future. She enters a space inhabited by people such as Robert Charles Wilson and William Gibson because she weaves these naturally into the story with minimal infodump and maximum concern for prose style and characterization.
Meanwhile, over at ReadingWatchingLiving, Slights is getting some justifiable lovin’:
In a strange, twisted sort of way, I loved Slights. I’ve read a lot of horror novels in my day, and it is the only one to really scare me since Stephan King’s Pet Semmetary.
Rating: 9 out of 10
On the same site, in an interview with Kaaron Warren, Kaaron tells us that:
I started with the idea of the Hell that Steve suffers, so I knew it would not be a happy story. I also knew that if I was going to tell her story properly, I couldn’t balk. I had to just go for it. The imagery in the dark room had to be hellish and horrifying for it to work.
Read the full review here, and the interview here.
