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Cape Town - South African author Lauren Beukes has won the Arthur C Clarke book prize.
The prize is awarded for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in the previous year.
The South African author won the prize for her novel Zoo City.
Zoo City tells the story of Zinzi December who has recently been bonded for life with a sloth. In this world, when you commit a crime you become "animaled" by a process called Acquired Aposymbiotic Familiarism. Soon, Zinzi and her Sloth are plunged into a noir-style mystery with many surprises.
Beukes is also the author of Moxyland.
The prize is awarded for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in the previous year.
The South African author won the prize for her novel Zoo City.
Zoo City tells the story of Zinzi December who has recently been bonded for life with a sloth. In this world, when you commit a crime you become "animaled" by a process called Acquired Aposymbiotic Familiarism. Soon, Zinzi and her Sloth are plunged into a noir-style mystery with many surprises.
Beukes is also the author of Moxyland.
