New Releases by Lauren Beukes

The November/December 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky, William Alexander, Sonya Taaffe, Lauren Beukes, Marissa Lingen, Naomi Day, and Angel Leal. Essays by Vivian Shaw, Tania Chen, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Alex Jennings, poetry by Brandon O''Brien, Sneha Mohidekar, Abu Bakr Sadiq, and Katherine James, interviews with William Alexander and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Betsy Aoki, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

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.

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in this dazzling new thriller from the author of The Shining Girls that is "sheer thrilling madness with a big, beating heart that reminds us we''re all connected" (Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author). There are infinite realities. She''s looking for one . . . Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother’s unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the “dreamworm” that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo’s grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with her daughter. But in packing up Jo’s house, Bridge discovers Jo’s obsession hidden amongst her things. And the dreamworm works, exactly the way it’s supposed to, the way Bridge remembers from when she was a little girl. Suddenly Bridge can step into other realities, otherselves. In one of them, could she find out what really happened to her mother? What Bridge doesn’t know is that there are others hunting for the dreamworm—who will kill to get their hands on it. Bridge is a highly original, reality-bending thrill-ride that could only have come from the brilliant mind of award-winning novelist, Lauren Beukes, about mothers and daughters, hunters and seekers, and who we each choose to be. "A fantastic high-wire act of a novel . . . at once a cosmic narrative and a deeply intimate human story." —Catriona Ward "Ass-kicking, mind-bending entertainment." —Kirkus Reviews “A suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all.” —Katie Gutierrez "Spiders out into alternate universes yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now." —Paul Tremblay "Lauren Beukes is a major, major talent." —George R. R. Martin

Chicago, 1931. Prima di trovare la Casa, Harper Curtis era uno dei tanti vagabondi in una città schiacciata dalla Depressione. Poi una voce lo attira in quella che sembra solo una villa in rovina, e la sua vita cambia per sempre. Le porte della Casa permettono di viaggiare nel tempo e lui comincia ad assaporare le meraviglie del futuro. Ma Harper Curtis è anche un uomo violento e crudele, un sadico, e a farne le spese sono giovani donne, forti, indipendenti e ricche di talento. Come un cacciatore, Harper le insegue attraverso le epoche, scovandole da bambine e tornando a ucciderle quando sono al culmine del loro splendore. Incarna l’assassino perfetto, non può essere scoperto né fermato. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachi ha imparato bene la lezione da quando è stata assalita ed è sopravvissuta per miracolo. Il suo aggressore non è mai stato identificato. Nonostante il trauma emotivo, ha deciso che non vuole rimanere una vittima: l’unico modo per farlo è trovare chi l’ha aggredita e fermarlo. Il suo unico alleato è Dan, il giornalista che ha seguito il suo caso. Lentamente, Kirby si rende conto che l’uomo a cui sta dando la caccia non è un semplice maniaco. Molte, troppe ragazze sono state uccise a Chicago. E ogni volta sulla scena del delitto sono stati trovati oggetti che non hanno una spiegazione. Come può Kirby trovare e catturare un uomo che non esiste?

Chicago, 1931. Harper Curtis, un vagabundo violento, se topa con una casa que oculta un sorprendente secreto: es la puerta que lo traslada a otros momentos del tiempo para acechar a mujeres jóvenes que se le aparecen como «luminosas», rodeadas de una aureola especial que las convierte en el preciado objeto de sus instintos asesinos. Chicago, 1992. La vida de Kirby Mazrachi se ha trastocado tras el brutal intento de asesinarla. Mientras lucha por encontrar a su atacante, su único aliado es Dan, un antiguo periodista de homicidios que se ocupó del caso y que trata de protegerla de su obsesión. A medida que Kirby avanza en la investigación descubre a otras chicas, las que no lo lograron. Las pruebas de los crímenes son imposibles y la respuesta parece ocultarse en una casa abandonada en medio de la ciudad.

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.

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.

A new edition of Lauren Beukes''s Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi''s forced to take on her least favorite kind of job -- missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell''s undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she''ll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives -- including her own.

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.

«Tengo que decirlo: ¡este libro es alucinante, una fantasmagoría criminal! Esta espléndida novela es un manual para explorar la decadencia humana elevada a la enésima potencia». James Ellroy En Detroit, la ciudad que se ha convertido en el símbolo de la muerte del sueño americano, una ciudad embargada, desahuciada, un asesino en serie pretende redimir sus frustraciones artísticas a través del horror. La detective de homicidios Gabriella Versado ha visto muchos cadáveres a lo largo de sus ocho años de carrera, pero este es demasiado macabro incluso para los estándares de Detroit: el tronco de un niño de doce años aparece pegado a la parte trasera de un ciervo, en una suerte de fusión repulsiva. A medida que la policía va hallando cadáveres cada vez más inquietantes, surge una pregunta: ¿cómo se puede sobrevivir en esa ciudad, escombrera del sueño americano? Monstruos rotos es un thriller que trasciende el género y que muestra ciudades rotas, sueños rotos y personas rotas que buscan recomponerse. Lauren Beukes se mueve sin esfuerzo entre los distintos submundos de la ciudad, ya sean comisarías de policía, las vidas secretas de unas adolescentes obsesionadas con internet, refugios para indigentes o los vecindarios moribundos de una ciudad renqueante, todo mientras se asoma al universo perturbadoramente hermoso y casi sobrenatural que existe en las fronteras.

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 you’re scoring goals to appease the elder gods or rolling boules with the Devil, everyone wants to be a winner-and you can’t win if you don’t 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

Chicago, 1931. Den våldsamme luffaren Harper Curtis hamnar i ett hus som ger honom möjlighet att resa i tiden. Han använder det till att förfölja sina "flickor som skimrar" - unga kvinnor med hela livet framför sig. Tills han förgör dem. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachis liv är förstört efter ett brutalt mordförsök. Kirby försöker desperat förstå vem som attackerade henne. Till sin hjälp har hon Dan, en gammal kriminalreporter som skrev om överfallet på henne. När Kirby undersöker sitt eget fall hittar hon de andra flickorna, de som inte klarade sig. Bevisen och sammanhangen är omöjliga. Men för någon som borde vara död betyder det omöjliga ingenting.

New York Times bestselling, 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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.