Prompt: Cyberpunk
"I read a lot of women authors and I've read quite a bit of cyberpunk, but I'd never read cyberpunk written by a woman, so that made this stand out right from the start. But if you've ever read anything by Beukes, you know that her books tend to be just a little bit edgy and different and not quite like anything you've ever read before; this book was no exception. Beukes was a journalist, and this was (I think?) her first novel, and it really reads like something that could almost have been real in the news, except of course it's set in the future so it's obviously not real . . . yet." — Nadine