- Published: 28 July 2020
- ISBN: 9781405923712
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Afterland
- Published: 28 July 2020
- ISBN: 9781405923712
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Bowstring-taut, visceral, and incredibly timely: Beukes's plague-tale is a parable about the glory and terror of Americanism in times of calamity
Cory Doctorow, author of <i>Walkaway</i> and <i>Little Brother</i>
Lauren Beukes is a writer with a startling imagination, and a masterful ability to rewrite the rules of whatever genre she turns to; and now, right on time, she has turned to dystopian plague
Ben Winters, author of <i>Underground Airlines</i> and <i>Golden State</i>
Five years in writing, this intelligent speculative novel about a pandemic feels alarmingly close to home
Metro
You can't imagine how quickly the world can change in six months - there probably isn't a more resonant sentence to be found in any other novel published this year. A fast-moving thriller [that] splices gut-punching action sequences and feminist gender politics with an impressively light touch. Bubbles with big ideas. This intelligent speculative novel about a pandemic feels alarmingly close to home
Metro
A smartly written thriller that opens with a satisfying bang . . . splendid
Stephen King, New York Times
Afterland is that rare creature, a ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers
New Scientist
Teases out the deep familial currents that run through its relationships, explores gender and reminds us that dystopian fiction can be seriously grown-up entertainment
SFX
Afterland could not be more timely or terrifying . . . An excellent example of the prophetic nature of speculative fiction. Lauren Beukes is one of the most innovative and provocative writers on the contemporary scene
Scotland on Sunday
Powerful and intelligent, with some unexpectedly trenchant humour, this welcome addition to the no-longer-so-speculative pandemic subgenre has plenty to say about grief, love, family ties and gender roles
Guardian
(A) timely thriller
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Perfect lockdown reading
Herald
Praise for Lauren Beukes
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Unreservedly recommended
Joe Hill
Brilliant ... engrossing ... I will be looking forward to whatever Lauren Beukes does next. She's a major, major talent
George RR Martin, internationally bestselling author of, A Song of Ice and Fire
Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down
Stephen King
I'm all over it
Gillian Flynn, number one bestselling author of, Gone Girl
Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special
Tana French
Masterful. Lauren Beukes is very *very* good
William Gibson
A new kind of thriller. A dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning. It shines
Matt Haig