Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. Corporate recruits harvest poisonous plants on an inhospitable planet. An inquisitive adolescent ghost disrupts the life of a young architect. Product loyalty is addictive when the brand appears under one's skin.

Award-winning Cape Town author and journalist Lauren Beukes (Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters) spares no targets in this edgy and satiric retrospective collection. In her fiction and nonfiction, ranging from Johannesburg across the galaxy, Beukes is a fierce, captivating presence throughout the literary landscape.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 11/29/2016
ISBN: 9781616962401
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 09/12/2016
Library Journal 11/15/2016 pg. 67
Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 25