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I have ideas for the morning so I’m gonna write them here so I don’t forget.

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Happy birthday to the awesome Lauren Beukes

An internationally award-winning and bestselling South African writer Lauren Beukes’s followed her first book, the non-fiction Maverick: Extraordinary Women from South Africa’s Past (2006), with the novel Moxyland (2008). Her next three novels, the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Zoo City (2010), the British Fantasy Award-winner The Shining Girls (2013), and Broken Monsters (2014) garnered Beukes worldwide notice.

Her graphic novel work includes Vertigo’s Survivor’s Club, the Fables spin-off Fairest, and Wonder Woman. Beukes’s nonfiction has been published in numerous magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire, and Elle.

Many of Beukes’s short stories were collected in the acclaimed SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING. Among her other works are The Bostik Book of Unbelievable Beasties, made up of ridiculous rhymes with illustrations by kids in South Africa, and the Beukes’ directed, award-winning documentaryGlitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant.

All of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Lauren a happy birthday. May you avoid any time travel conundrums.

For more information about SLIPPING: STORIES, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITING, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Clara Bacou Design by Elizabeth Story

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Here are some really bad photos (second one refuses to rotate. I do not know why) of my recent haul to the library. Some re-reads & new reads.

Mostly I just wanted to show off the unicorn marshmallow I hunted down. After two buses, a phone call, and $$$ later, she's mine. <3

Broken Monsters//Lauren Beukes

Emergency Contact//Mary H.K. Choi

The Raven Boys//M.Stiefvater

Three Dark Crowns//Kendare Blake

Coraline//Neil Gaiman

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Need TBR ideas? Check out The Verge's list, "8 stories to read while you wait for the next season of American Gods."

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BROKEN MONSTERS by Lauren Beukes

RELEASE DATE: Sept. 16, 2014

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BROKEN MONSTERS

by Lauren Beukes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 16, 2014

Beukes gave us a time traveling serial killer in The Shining Girls, and the monsters in her latest tale, whether they’re...

A genuinely unsettling—in all the best ways—blend of suspense and the supernatural makes this a serial-killer tale like you’ve never seen.

Set in a crumbling contemporary Detroit, Beukes’ fourth novel (The Shining Girls, 2013, etc.) seamlessly alternates between the points of view of a single mother homicide detective; her 15-year-old daughter; a wannabe journalist; a homeless man; and an artist with deep-seated psychological issues. At the scene of the crime, Detective Gabriella Versado can’t remember the last time she’s seen something so brutal: The top half of 11-year-old Daveyton Lafonte is fused with the hind legs of a fawn in a hideous display of human taxidermy. While it’s obvious that the five storylines will eventually join together, Beukes never takes the easy route, letting each character develop organically. Versado’s daughter, Layla, cautiously navigates high school in the digital age; homeless scavenger Thomas “TK” Keen warily patrols the streets; Detroit transplant Jonno Haim tries to make a name for himself by chronicling first the city’s art scene and then the hunt for the killer dubbed the Detroit Monster; and sculptor Clayton Broom’s creations begin to take on lives of their own. Versado’s dogged pursuit of the killer, under the glare of the media spotlight, is as compelling a police procedural narrative as Broom’s descent into madness and the horrors of his dream world are a truly terrifying horror story.

Beukes gave us a time traveling serial killer in The Shining Girls, and the monsters in her latest tale, whether they’re real or imagined, will keep you up all night.