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Title: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Bdoomed on April 28, 2011, 09:38:36 PM
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)
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: DKT on April 29, 2011, 03:57:52 PM
So this interview accomplished two things:

1) Made me want to pick up Zoo City

2) Made me think: Stop screwing around and finish the damn novel, already!

Thanks EP and Ms. Beukes!
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Alasdair5000 on April 29, 2011, 04:39:31 PM
As an aside?  I'm in this. Sort of. There's a series of soundbites from characters in various places and I know Lauren through Lee at Angry Robot and...well...I sort of work for the Johannesburg Police now:) So yeah, it's a tiny little thing but I got a huge kick out of it:)
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Rain on April 30, 2011, 06:02:25 PM
I really appreaciate things like this since it is always nice to hear about great new books. That being said after listening i am pretty sure that Zoo City isnt for me, it just didnt sound that interesting
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Talia on May 01, 2011, 04:23:12 AM
Heh, I had the dead opposite reaction. I can't wait to read it, sounds fascinating.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Devoted135 on May 02, 2011, 07:49:41 PM
This definitely made me want to read Zoo City. Borders.com, here I come :)
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Unblinking on May 05, 2011, 01:23:22 PM
Hey thanks for the interview, EP.  :)  Before I buy any more books though, I think I'd better read through all the clearance books I've bought elsewhere that have filled my bookshelf, as well as my magazine subscriptions that I've fallen months behind on reading.  :P

It's neat that you were able to get in a sneak interview without the author knowing why.  :D
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Scattercat on May 05, 2011, 01:28:30 PM
I bought Zoo City (five dollars on my Kindle!) and am enjoying it immensely thus far.  Thanks, Escape Pod!
Title: Re: Escape Pod Special Episode- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Post by: Loz on May 09, 2011, 01:36:07 PM
Got it out of the library and it's next on my pile of books to read. Let's see what it's like...