Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner! (http://escapepod.org/2011/04/27/escape-pod-special-episode-the-arthur-c-clarke-award-winner/)
You heard it here first, folks, we have an exclusive interview and book excerpt from this year’s Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City (http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/laurenbeukes/zoo-city/) (Angry Robot Books)!
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Zoo City explores a present day, but alternate, Johannesburg, and follows the story of Zinzi December, one of the animalled – people who are psychically bonded with animals due to crimes they have committed in the past. Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things, but when she is asked to take on a missing persons case, her life becomes increasingly more complicated and she discovers that beneath the seedy underbelly of Zoo City, things can – and do – get a lot worse.
Rated PG-13 for talk of sex workers and street violence.
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Listen to this week’s Escape Pod! (http://traffic.libsyn.com/escapepod/EPSpecial001_ZooCity.mp3)