Lauren Beuekes imagines a brand new worldLauren Beukes crisscrosses literary genres to write ground-breakingweird-and-wonderful dystopian thrillers. Her novels - Moxyland, ZooCity, The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters - are beautifully written,with complex characters and intriguing pulse-racing plots and plotswithin plots that are skillfully knitted together. Lauren also writescomics and screen plays, directed the documentary Glitterboys &Ganglands, and wrote the New York Times bestselling graphic novelFairest: The Hidden Kingdom. Academics study her work, fans name theirpets and children after her characters and she has won prestigiousliterary honours. She has received endorsements from Stephen King,shout outs from George RR Martin and big-ups from Neil Gaiman. Laurenis the Trevor Noah of the literaryhorror-sci-fi-spec-fic-cyberpunk-fantasy- psych-thriller-dystopianworld. And now Afterland, her spanking new novel about a globalpandemic has come out slap-bang in the middle of a global pandemic.