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''Zoo City'', by South African author Lauren Beukes, is a wide spanning UrbanFantasy set in a world of GreyAndGrayMorality, set in an AlternateUniverse NeoAfrica where guilt literally manifests itself as an [[BondCreatures animal]], bound to individuals. The story follows one Zinzi December as she gets caught in an intricate mystery in Johannesburg, while struggling with her own past and guilt in the form of the Sloth that adorns her back.
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''Zoo City'', by South African author Lauren Beukes, is a wide spanning UrbanFantasy set in a world of GreyAndGrayMorality, set in an AlternateUniverse NeoAfrica [[{{Afrofuturism}} Neo-Africa]] where guilt literally manifests itself as an [[BondCreatures animal]], bound to individuals. The story follows one Zinzi December as she gets caught in an intricate mystery in Johannesburg, while struggling with her own past and guilt in the form of the Sloth that adorns her back.
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* NotSoDifferent: Song and Zinzi have a lot in common as Zinzi chases her down. [[spoiler: Subverted though. Song was a party animal to escape from serious depression issues, while Zinzi was just a SpoiledBrat]].
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* TheAtoner: Ideally, anyone with an animal tries to atone and live with their guilt, but quite a few just use their newfound [[StockSuperpowers super powers]] to continue their ways.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Benoit ends up in the hospital with limited chances to regain his health, Song and Sbu are murdered, Zinzi still owes hundreds of thousands in debt to the Company, and the Marabou and Maltese escape easily]].
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* TheAtoner: Ideally, anyone with an animal tries to atone and live with their guilt, but quite a few just use their newfound [[StockSuperpowers super powers]] powers to continue their ways.
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* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: Zinzi hits it pretty hard when Benoit finds her work for the Company but rebounds quickly]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.]]
** [[spoiler: And ''nobody'' offers any explanation for literal ghosts sending Zinzi messages to lead her to their killer]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.]]
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* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Zinzi hits it pretty hard when Benoit finds her work for the Company but rebounds quickly]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.]]
** [[spoiler: And ''nobody'' offers any explanation for literal ghosts sending Zinzi messages to lead her to their killer]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Zinzi is a scam artist, ex-addict, and killed her brother. She's the protagonist by virtue of the fact that nearly everyone else in the story is ''worse''.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Zinzi lampshades this while discussing Song's disappearance.
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** Also applies ''between'' zoos, as incarcerated prisoners with weaker animals are targeted for abuse by those with formidable ones, regardless of the inmates' own physical prowess.
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* ShoutOut: There's a wink to the fact that the setting includes animal familiars like ''TheGoldenCompass'' in a faux-Amazon review.
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* ShoutOut: There's a wink to the fact that the setting includes animal familiars like ''TheGoldenCompass'' ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' in a faux-Amazon review.
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: If a zoo's animal dies they are torn apart by the Undertow. Judging by how much people who are taken by it scream, it is [i]very[/i] painful.
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: If a zoo's animal dies they are torn apart by the Undertow. Judging by how much people who are taken by it scream, it is [i]very[/i] it's very painful.
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''Zoo City'', by South African author Lauren Beukes, is a wide spanning UrbanFantasy set in a world of GreyAndGrayMorality, set in an AlternateUniverse NeoAfrica where guilt literally manifests itself as a SpiritAnimal, an [[BondCreatures animal]], bound to individuals. The story follows one Zinzi December as she gets caught in an intricate mystery in Johannesburg, while struggling with her own past and guilt in the form of the Sloth that adorns her back.
* BondCreatures: All zoos have an animal, which they seem to gain by committing some sort of crime. They need to keep their animal close or suffer serious panic attacks and pain, and if the animal dies they are taken by the Undertow.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: If a zoo's animal dies they are torn apart by the Undertow. Judging by how much people who are taken by it scream, it is [i]very[/i] painful.
* CursedWithAwesome: Gaining an animal. While it may be a manifestation of guilt for killing someone, you get superpowers!
* CursedWithAwesome: Gaining an animal. While it may be a manifestation of guilt for killing someone, you get superpowers!
* FunctionalMagic: Combines Inherent Gift with a twist on Theurgy and Force Magic. "Zoos" get their powers from their Animals which are a form of familiar. The twist is that they didn't make any conscious deal to get their Animals, they were bestowed on the zoos for committing violent crimes by a mysterious force called the Undertow. There are also shamans who receive visions through Alchemy.
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* MassSuperEmpowering: Shavi, while referred to by Zinzi as magic, fit the trope pretty well.
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* MassSuperEmpowering: Shavi, while referred to by Zinzi as magic, fit MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: People first started gaining animals sometime in the trope pretty well. 1980s or 1990s and it is now a worldwide phenomenon.
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''Zoo City'', by South African author Lauren Beukes, is a wide spanning UrbanFantasy set in a world of GreyAndGrayMorality, set in an AlternateUniverse NeoAfrica where guilt literally manifests itself as a SpiritAnimal, bound to individuals. The story follows one Zinzi December as she gets caught in an intricate mystery in Johannesburg, while struggling with her own past and guilt in the form of the Sloth that adorns her back.
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''Zoo City'', by Lauren Beukes, is a wide spanning UrbanFantasy set in a world of GreyAndGrayMorality, set in an AlternateUniverse NeoAfrica where guilt literally manifests itself as a SpiritAnimal, bound to individuals. The story follows one Zinzi December as she gets caught in an intricate mystery in Johannesburg, while struggling with her own past and guilt in the form of the Sloth that adorns her back.
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!!Tropes in this work:
* TheAtoner: Ideally, anyone with an animal tries to atone and live with their guilt, but quite a few just use their newfound SuperPowers to continue their ways.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Benoit ends up in the hospital with limited chances to regain his health, Song and Sbu are murdered, Zinzi still owes hundreds of thousands in debt to the Company, and the Marabou and Maltese escape easily]].
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: Sbu gets so hopped up on drugs that he kills Song in a frenzy. He barely has time for a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone before the Marabou kills him]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The Sparrow woman and homeless man end up being very important]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone. [[spoiler: Benoit probably takes the cake though]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Zinzi's narration and dialogue just loves to snark. [[spoiler: She drops it in moments of seriousness and as the novel reaches the climax]].
* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: Zinzi hits it pretty hard when Benoit finds her work for the Company but rebounds quickly]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.]]
** [[spoiler: And ''nobody'' offers any explanation for literal ghosts sending Zinzi messages to lead her to their killer]].
* FantasticRacism: Zoos get a rough treatment around the world. In China they're killed on sight, in many countries they're rounded up and imprisoned for no reason, and even in the West, they're given full body invasive scans and are treated as second class citizens. South Africa, despite the treatment of zoos being shitty, is very nearly the only place that treats them with any rights at all.
* GreyAndBlackMorality: Zinzi is a scam artist, ex-addict, and killed her brother. She's the protagonist by virtue of the fact that nearly everyone else in the story is ''worse''.
* ItsAllMyFault: How you get an animal. Zinzi specifically got hers because she killed her brother, [[spoiler: even though she did not literally pull the trigger]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Gio's "expose" on Zoo sex lead Zinzi to redirect her 419 clients to him. He ends up getting arrested for it.]]
* [[spoiler: NoodleIncident: How exactly Thando died is never clarified, as Zinzi was hurt by the same bullet as him, so she couldn't have fired the gun.]]
** [[spoiler: TakingTheBullet: What's implied]].
* NotSoDifferent: Song and Zinzi have a lot in common as Zinzi chases her down. [[spoiler: Subverted though. Song was a party animal to escape from serious depression issues, while Zinzi was just a SpoiledBrat]].
* {{Magitek}}: Spirits and gods and shavi woven together with modern technology. There's mention given to hacking phones magically and [[spoiler: ghosts send Zinzi emails]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Odi Huron behind the Maltese and Marabou, but he's just a client of them.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: D'Nice is described by Zinzi as a "serotonin vampire", but [[spoiler: the Maltese takes the cake.]].
* MassSuperEmpowering: Shavi, while referred to by Zinzi as magic, fit the trope pretty well.
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Zinzi about Thando's death, Sbu briefly after he realizes he murdered Song in a frenzy]].
* [[spoiler: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Odi Huron raped pretty much every female star he'd had]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: After hitting her DespairEventHorizon, Zinzi finally pieces everything together and finds out Odi Huron has been running a SerialKiller ploy to rid himself of his Crocodile]].
* [[spoiler: SerialKiller: The Marabou specifically, but the Maltese helps.]]
* ShoutOut: There's a wink to the fact that the setting includes animal familiars like ''TheGoldenCompass'' in a faux-Amazon review.
** Sbu has a Dalek figure on his shelf.
* SpoiledBrat: Arno, Sbu, and Songweza are all pretty spoiled, though Des, being older, isn't as important. Nevertheless they're shown to be innocent and naive and still good natured despite that. [[spoiler: Zinzi retches when she finds Arno's corpse and Sbu and Song's double murder in the climax is terrifying.]]
** Zinzi herself used to be quite the brat.
* TheSociopath: Zinzi gets pretty creeped out by the Maltese's lack of any lost things. The only other person she's seen with that threw herself down an elevator shaft shortly thereafter.
* SuperpowerLottery: Zinzi's ability is kind of average as far as shavi go, but [[spoiler: Benoit's PowerNullifier is very potent, as is the Maltese's AmplifierArtifact abilities.]]
** Most animals are small, often scavengers or prey species, but some individuals have large apex predators.
** Two extremely potent abilities are described only by periphery characters, Baiyat (the Afgahnistani warlord who was the first public case) and an unnamed prisoner with a Butterfly got some sort way to remotely torture people and waking up as someone else in the world whenever he goes to sleep respectively.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Arno]].
* UrbanFantasy: Set in the grimest possible interpretation of this.
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!!Tropes in this work:
* TheAtoner: Ideally, anyone with an animal tries to atone and live with their guilt, but quite a few just use their newfound SuperPowers to continue their ways.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Benoit ends up in the hospital with limited chances to regain his health, Song and Sbu are murdered, Zinzi still owes hundreds of thousands in debt to the Company, and the Marabou and Maltese escape easily]].
* [[spoiler: BrainwashedAndCrazy: Sbu gets so hopped up on drugs that he kills Song in a frenzy. He barely has time for a moment of MyGodWhatHaveIDone before the Marabou kills him]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The Sparrow woman and homeless man end up being very important]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone. [[spoiler: Benoit probably takes the cake though]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Zinzi's narration and dialogue just loves to snark. [[spoiler: She drops it in moments of seriousness and as the novel reaches the climax]].
* [[spoiler: DespairEventHorizon: Zinzi hits it pretty hard when Benoit finds her work for the Company but rebounds quickly]].
* DoingInTheScientist: Scientists attempt to explain the Undertow and aposymbionts. Their explanations are TechnoBabble, especially given the [[spoiler: actual muti Zinzi experiences partway through the novel makes a lot more sense.]]
** [[spoiler: And ''nobody'' offers any explanation for literal ghosts sending Zinzi messages to lead her to their killer]].
* FantasticRacism: Zoos get a rough treatment around the world. In China they're killed on sight, in many countries they're rounded up and imprisoned for no reason, and even in the West, they're given full body invasive scans and are treated as second class citizens. South Africa, despite the treatment of zoos being shitty, is very nearly the only place that treats them with any rights at all.
* GreyAndBlackMorality: Zinzi is a scam artist, ex-addict, and killed her brother. She's the protagonist by virtue of the fact that nearly everyone else in the story is ''worse''.
* ItsAllMyFault: How you get an animal. Zinzi specifically got hers because she killed her brother, [[spoiler: even though she did not literally pull the trigger]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Gio's "expose" on Zoo sex lead Zinzi to redirect her 419 clients to him. He ends up getting arrested for it.]]
* [[spoiler: NoodleIncident: How exactly Thando died is never clarified, as Zinzi was hurt by the same bullet as him, so she couldn't have fired the gun.]]
** [[spoiler: TakingTheBullet: What's implied]].
* NotSoDifferent: Song and Zinzi have a lot in common as Zinzi chases her down. [[spoiler: Subverted though. Song was a party animal to escape from serious depression issues, while Zinzi was just a SpoiledBrat]].
* {{Magitek}}: Spirits and gods and shavi woven together with modern technology. There's mention given to hacking phones magically and [[spoiler: ghosts send Zinzi emails]].
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Odi Huron behind the Maltese and Marabou, but he's just a client of them.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: D'Nice is described by Zinzi as a "serotonin vampire", but [[spoiler: the Maltese takes the cake.]].
* MassSuperEmpowering: Shavi, while referred to by Zinzi as magic, fit the trope pretty well.
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Zinzi about Thando's death, Sbu briefly after he realizes he murdered Song in a frenzy]].
* [[spoiler: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Odi Huron raped pretty much every female star he'd had]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: After hitting her DespairEventHorizon, Zinzi finally pieces everything together and finds out Odi Huron has been running a SerialKiller ploy to rid himself of his Crocodile]].
* [[spoiler: SerialKiller: The Marabou specifically, but the Maltese helps.]]
* ShoutOut: There's a wink to the fact that the setting includes animal familiars like ''TheGoldenCompass'' in a faux-Amazon review.
** Sbu has a Dalek figure on his shelf.
* SpoiledBrat: Arno, Sbu, and Songweza are all pretty spoiled, though Des, being older, isn't as important. Nevertheless they're shown to be innocent and naive and still good natured despite that. [[spoiler: Zinzi retches when she finds Arno's corpse and Sbu and Song's double murder in the climax is terrifying.]]
** Zinzi herself used to be quite the brat.
* TheSociopath: Zinzi gets pretty creeped out by the Maltese's lack of any lost things. The only other person she's seen with that threw herself down an elevator shaft shortly thereafter.
* SuperpowerLottery: Zinzi's ability is kind of average as far as shavi go, but [[spoiler: Benoit's PowerNullifier is very potent, as is the Maltese's AmplifierArtifact abilities.]]
** Most animals are small, often scavengers or prey species, but some individuals have large apex predators.
** Two extremely potent abilities are described only by periphery characters, Baiyat (the Afgahnistani warlord who was the first public case) and an unnamed prisoner with a Butterfly got some sort way to remotely torture people and waking up as someone else in the world whenever he goes to sleep respectively.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Arno]].
* UrbanFantasy: Set in the grimest possible interpretation of this.
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