num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing
publisher: Tachyon Publications