New Releases by Lauren Beukes

A stressed out, super-powered private investigator puts herself in harm’s way in pursuit of justice in this original Marvel story. As a private eye in New York City, it’s Jessica Jones’s job to investigate humanity’s worst, unleashed impulses. Possessing superhuman strength and endurance does nothing to help her process other people’s tragedies, much less her own slate of unresolved traumatic issues. Realizing drinking and hitting things is no way to cope with her problems—no matter how much fun it is—Jessica gives therapy a try. But she finds it hard to look after herself when so many people need help. Hired to find a missing boy, Jessica follows a trail that ends with his dead body, the apparent victim of a drug overdose. Her gut instinct tells her the case isn’t solved, leading Jessica into an even deeper, darker mystery . . . Jessica Jones: Playing With Fire is a collaborative novel by Lauren Beukes, Vita Ayala, Sam Beckbessinger, Zoe Quinn, and Elsa Sjunneson.

In infinite parallel universes, there’s a version of you who already has everything you’ve ever wanted. But 24-year-old drop-out Bridge is paralysed, by all the other lives she could have lived, the choices she could have made, and now, whoever she’s supposed to be in the wake of her mother’s premature death. They always had a complicated relationship. Jo was the teenage runaway turned maverick neuroscientist who threw everything away chasing after an impossibility – a mysterious artefact – the dreamworm – that allows you to switch between realities. And now she’s dead and any chance of reconciliation with her is gone. But is Jo really gone ... or only in this universe? When Bridge and her best friend Dom stumble on the dreamworm,which does indeed open the doors to other worlds, otherselves, she becomes convinced her mom is lost out there. But the dreamworm is more dangerous than she can imagine, and she’s not the only one hunting across time and space. Page-turning and ambitious, Bridge is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.

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The safe choice? Walk away. But when has Jessica Jones ever played it safe? "Once again Serial Box uses the playground that is the Marvel Universe to its fullest potential." -But Why Tho Jessica Jones has made an art of ignoring her particular brand of super-powered trauma. But these days, she’s giving the whole “self-care” thing a try. Seeing a therapist, finding healthier coping mechanisms (read: no business-hours drinking), working toward not wanting to punch things all the time. Maybe even taking the occasional case that won’t eat her alive. A simple missing persons case seems like just the ticket. But when a boy’s body turns up under an overpass in what looks like a cut-and-dried OD, Jessica can’t let it go and dives headlong into an obsessive search for answers.

Children of Men meets The Handmaid''s Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King). Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues—but a world run by women isn''t always a better place. Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole''s own ruthless sister, Billie—all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won''t be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home. To get there, Cole and Miles must journey across a changed America in disguise as mother and daughter. From a military base in Seattle to a luxury bunker, from an anarchist commune in Salt Lake City to a roaming cult that''s all too ready to see Miles as the answer to their prayers, the two race to stay ahead at every step . . . even as Billie and her sinister crew draw closer. A sharply feminist, high-stakes thriller from award-winning author Lauren Beukes, Afterland brilliantly blends psychological suspense, American noir, and science fiction into an adventure all its own—and perfect for our times.

Mechanical Animals presents a biomimicry menagerie of animalistic machines that blur the lines between what is and isn''t nature''s design. Featuring 15 original stories by today''s top science fiction and fantasy authors and contextual mecha-fauna essays by Insect Lab Studio maker, Mike Libby, and SF encyclopedist and author Jess Nevins.

From astronauts and abolitionists to computer coders and crack journalists, these fearless women have paved the way for equal rights in science, politics and the arts. FEMME MAGNIFIQUE celebrates their achievements in a book that can live on in teenage bedrooms, corporate boardrooms and libraries around the world.Featuring over 100+ astounding writers & artists from around the world united by a deep love and appreciation for the comics medium and its peerless power of graphic storytelling.

A Punk Lolita fighter-pilot rescues Tokyo from a marauding art installation. A young architect’s life is derailed by an inquisitive girl who happens to be a ghost. Loyalty to a favorite product can be addictive when it gets under your skin. In her edgy and satiric debut collection, award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls) never holds back. Ranging from Johannesburg to outer space, Beukes is a fierce and captivating presence in the literary landscape.

Dark Discoveries - Issue #36 Radical Spirit All new Fiction by: Nisi Shawl, Lauren Beukes, Nancy Palmer, Kathryn Ptacek, R.A. MacAvoy and Christopher Golden Interviews with: Christopher Golden, Richard Smoley, Philip Fracassi, and more! Articles on: The Subtle Spaces of Heresy by Craig Williams, and Featured Film Reviews by Colleen Wanglund Columns from Mike Davis, Laird Barron, Robert Morrish, Donald Tyson and Richard Dansky! Dark Poetry: Michael Collings

Lauren Beukes''s frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid. Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, these characters crackle with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, Lauren Beukes spins a tale of a utopia gone wrong, satirically undermining the idea of progress as society''s white knight.

Six kids who lived through unbelievable horrors in 1987, now all grownup, are united in L.A. It''s monster versus monster (versus exorcists) in a torturous game between Mr. Empty and the Muskagee House. We discover the terrible truth about Simon''s parents and meet the Hinkels, the exorcists who now control the haunted property and try to keep a handle on everything that dwells inside it.

They say that sport is a substitute for war, but the line dividing the two is often hard to make out-especially in the no-holds-barred pages of STRANGE SPORTS STORIES, where the spirit of good, clean competition gets a brutal body check from the darker side of human nature. After all, the urge to be the best-and to crush your opponents along the way-is one of the defining characteristics of life, from the lowliest microbes to the most artificially intelligent of robots. Whether youÕre scoring goals to appease the elder gods or rolling boules with the Devil, everyone wants to be a winner-and you canÕt win if you donÕt play! Collects STRANGE SPORTS STORIES #1-4, featuring work by Paul Pope, Lauren Beukes, Gilbert Hernandez, Amy Chu, Andy MacDonald, Ivan Brandon, Darick Robertson, Monica Gallagher and many more!

From Africa’s first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention. Updated, expanded, and now with photographs, this edition of Lauren Beukes’s first book casts light onto the fascinating lives of some of South Africa’s most famous – and notorious – women.

FEATURING KELLY LINK * HOLLY BLACK * KEN LIU * USMAN T. MALIK * LAUREN BEUKES * PAOLO BACIGALUPI * JOE ABERCROMBIE * GENEVIEVE VALENTINE * NICOLA GRIFFITH * CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN * GREG EGAN * K. J. PARKER * RACHEL SWIRSKY * ALICE SOLA KIM * GARTH NIX * KARL SCHROEDER * ELLEN KLAGES * KAI ASHANTE WILSON * MICHAEL SWANWICK * ELEANOR ARNASON * JAMES PATRICK KELLY * IAN MCDONALD * AMAL EL-MOHTAR * TIM MAUGHAN * ELIZABETH BEAR * THEODORA GOSS * PETER WATTS Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant, and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories. These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they are the stories of ourselves. Featuring best-selling writers and emerging talents, here are some of the most exciting genre writers working today. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe, displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly relevant to our turbulent world.

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes''s genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit''s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you''re Detective Versado''s geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you''re desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you''re Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you''ll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe -- and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If Lauren Beukes''s internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again. "Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn''t put it down...I''d grab it if I were you." -- Stephen King

New York Times best-selling, award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the female FABLES. Balancing horror, humor and adventure in the FABLES tradition, FAIREST explores the secret histories of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, Snow White, Rose Red and others. In a stand-alone tale, Beast must hunt a beauty, but what is her relation to his past? And then, in a 6-part epic, Rapunzel lives one of the most regimented lives in Fabletown, forced to maintain her rapidly growing hair lest her storybook origins be revealed. But when word of her long-lost children surface, she races across the sea to find them-and a former lover.

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn''t die hunts the killer who shouldn''t exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle). Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times. At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He''s the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives. Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . . “Utterly original, beautifully written, and I must say, it creeped the holy bejasus out of me. This is something special.” —Tana French

Wonder Woman has been summoned to the Isle of Cats to rescue her Justice League teammates, but can Diana save the day? "The Problem with Cats" part 1 of 1.

Rapunzel discovers that bloody vengeance will come back to haunt you. Frau Totenkinder and Bigby get caught in a war between Tomoko''s yakuza gangsters and Katagiri''s not-so-unassuming sumo school. "The Hidden Kingdom" part 5.

We look back to Rapunzel''s first fateful steps as she''s shipwrecked on the shores of the Hidden Kingdom. She''s charmed by the Celestial Court, but there is political intrigue afoot and a forbidden love affair when Rapunzel falls in love with a kitsune fox spirit.

Will Rapunzel discover what happened to her long-lost children--or will the Japanese Fables have their final, bloody revenge? "The Hidden Kingdom" part 6.

Rapunzel hatches a desperate plan to steal Tomoko''s soulfire back from the conniving shogun Ryogan. There''s murder, scheming, poisonings, safe-cracking, vengeful ghosts, treachery revealed in porcelain and a terrible, bloody invasion. "The Hidden Kingdom" part 4.

In the second issue of this startling new series, the club disperses to pursue new revelations, secrets and sinister effects of a deadly video game. Chenzira and Teo confront GeeForce in the hospital; Simon and Alice initiate a potentially fatal attraction, and Harvey flashes back to the genesis of his macabre Mr. Empty.

One was possessed by a poltergeist. Another was trapped in a haunted house. A third had a killer doll. Ever wonder what happened to these children of the 1980s? Find out in SURVIVORS CLUB, a new series cowritten by renowned horror novelist Lauren Beukes and videogame journalist Dave Halverson, with art by Ryan Kelly (NORTHLANDERS). Having found each other over the internet, six grown-up survivors are drawn together by the horrors they experienced in 1987 when a rash of occult events occurred around the world--with fatal results. Now, there are indications that it may be happening all over again. Is it possible that these six aren''t just survivors-but were chosen for their fates?

Six kids who lived through unbelievable terror in the ''80s are somehow united in LA. Alice and Simon continue their lusty game of cat and mouse as Chenzira and Kiri resort to illegal measures to find more information about the cursed game Akheron. And Harvey''s psychotic imaginary Mr. Empty goes from the voice inside his head to fully realized horror right in front of his face.

Rapunzel kicks ass when hungry ghosts and angry Yakuza storm the skyscraper. Meanwhile, Bigby and Frau Totenkinder arrive in Japan only to get captured by local Harijuku girls! "The Hidden Kingdom" part 3.

Rapunzel''s hair is the least of her problems. Her adopted witch mother thinks she''s a slut, origami birds carrying a sinister message are attacking her window--and now, she has to defy Bigby and Snow''s orders to travel from New York to Tokyo and resolve a mystery from her troubled past!