But, of course, you sort of know that the plot simmering behind the disappearance of one half of a hit pop duo is going to have to involve animals somehow. I like that kind of color.īeukes is content not to get too wonky about the metaphysics of aposymbiosis (or “animalling”), and the alternate early-twenty-first-century milieu makes that plausible they’re figuring out the limiting conditions on aposymbiosis much as we’re still figuring out AIDS and cancer. Who is pretty much in there just for color.
Hence, a film-school dropout turned terrorist with a Penguin (animal companions are never named but always capitalized) in customized body armor.
But it does highlight one of the cool things about Beukes, which is that she knows her big magical conceit - namely, and I think I give little away by this, y’know, look at the cover, but OK, SPOILERS, that people who commit crimes (loosely defined) are burdened and marked by mysterious animal companions, usually accompanied by a vaguely Xanthian magic talent - has room for humor. Presumably the fact that I assumed the latter based on the cover of ZOO CITY says more about me than it does about her.Īnyway, I sort of hesitate to put the above as the flagship quote for ZOO CITY, because I don’t want to suggest that only appreciators of Warren Ellisoid humor will appreciate the book.
So I suspect it’s right, and that the Mormons were speaking our language all along.įun fact #2: She is in fact a white South African, not a black American. I keep my Penguin safe in customised body armour.” - Dehqan Baiyatįun fact about Lauren Beukes: Her last name apparently has two syllables, “byoo-kəs.” I learned this from her Writing Excuses appearance, so it’s dimly possible that non-Mormons will pronounce it differently. You keep your rabbit’s foot safe in your pocket. Let’s say you have some lucky rabbit’s foot.
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