num_pages: 367
description: A frighteningly persuasive high-tech fable this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town South Africa. Kendra an art-school dropout brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato an ambitious AIDS baby plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka a hot-headed activist is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby a roguish blogger discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games biotech attack dogs slippery online identities a township soccer school shocking cell phones addictive branding and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight.
language: English
title: Moxyland
publisher: Jacana Media