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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Moxyland is a great reboot of classic cyberpunk set in a post-modern South Africa.
One of those books I had a hard time putting down. Just wanted to keep turning pages.
One of those books I had a hard time putting down. Just wanted to keep turning pages.
I read this shortly after [b:The Prey of Gods|30129154|The Prey of Gods|Nicky Drayden|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1482783962s/30129154.jpg|50558588], which made for a fascinating contrast: two SF visions of hi-tech near-future South Africa with large, diverse casts, and which couldn't be more different in vision. The latter book is enormously fun and vibrant with a soaring sense of hope and people actually trying to do better for one another. Beukes' vision, by contrast, is bleak as hell, with wealth and privilege shrivelling the souls of some characters as others are destroyed by poverty and injustice.
It's well written and constructed, vivdly imagined and powerful, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed this book. It's unremittingly negative as everything goes to hell, and leaves you with a vaguely 1984-ish sense that you might as well curl into a ball and give up because everything is awful and people are ghastly. If that's your cup of tea, you'll love it.
It's well written and constructed, vivdly imagined and powerful, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed this book. It's unremittingly negative as everything goes to hell, and leaves you with a vaguely 1984-ish sense that you might as well curl into a ball and give up because everything is awful and people are ghastly. If that's your cup of tea, you'll love it.