The awards were announced while I was back home basking in the lovely sunshine! I was upset to miss the sci-fi festival on my doorstep. Lauren's novel, Zoo City took the award in what judge and author Jon Courtenay Grimwood described as the "clear winner".
"Zoo City filters brutal social honesty through a stunning imagination to produce a world recognisably ours and obviously different," he said. "The plotting is tight, the characterisation strong and the writing superb."
Published by Angry Robot (the small but impressive UK publishing house), Zoo City is set in South Africa in the Zoo City slum where urban magic prowls. While Zinzi December searches for missing pop starlet Songweza, he uncovers secrets that the local crime lord and dark magician wants to stay hidden.
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