This year's Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for best science fiction novel is South African ex-journalist Lauren Beukes for Zoo City. If you haven't read it, I can definitely recommend Zoo City along with her first book Moxyland--a modern Orwellian 1984. Both are set in South Africa but that, apart from the well-written prose and great imagination, is where the similarities end. Moxyland is set in a high-tech Johannesburg where Corporations and Government abuse technology to control the population. Zoo City, while still feeling very 'real' has a more magical nature with the 'animalled'. Both are great reads.
You can find out more about Lauren, Zoo City, and Moxyland at her website: laurenbeukes.book.co.za
Edwin
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