Lauren Beukes is the internationally best-selling genre-bending author of six novels, including Zoo City, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award, and The Shining Girls, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss. She also writes comics, short stories and TV shows and directed an award-winning documentary. A former tech and culture journalist in her native South Africa, she’s given keynote talks at festivals and conferences around the world from The Royal Society to Design Indaba. Her work, which uses high concept twists to explore current social issues, has won multiple awards and has been translated into 26 languages around the world. She’s a champion of African arts and creators and raised hundreds of thousands of Rands for South African charities with bespoke art shows inspired by her novels.
I hate that “AIs” like ChatGPT (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, including every single one of my books. I hate more that it’s eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It’s ALSO the work. It’s the whole point. It’s what makes us human.
My “Seal Skin Coat” was originally published as part of the XPrize’s Oceans anthology, now unfortunately no longer online, so I’m reprinting it here with some personal photos from that amazing trip […]
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