Zoo City Lauren Beukes, 2010
The novel that took the burgeoning new wave of non- European SF ( for want of a snappier moniker) mainstream also announced the arrival of a major new talent. Lauren Beukes’ second novel is the tale of Zinzi December, who has been “animalled” with a sloth familiar as the result of crimes committed in the past. Both a fantastical vision of a near- future Johannesburg, and a book rooted in deep anger at the inequalities of post- apartheid South Africa.