Magenta was a 2008 novel pushing the D2 theme by stealth. The stealth worked somewhat too well, as you'll see from these reviews. Hardly anyone picked up the theme. I feel, nonetheless, that if you take a real interest in D2 and the thinking around it, you'll get some stuff from Magenta and its apprentice Socrates, Themba, that you won't get anywhere else.

There are about 15 reviews in all, I'll round up more of them as we go along. I should say that two conspicuous absentees so far are the two brutal ones -- the Sunday Times and the Cape Argus. I hate the habit of parading your praise-songs and pretending your hatchet-jobs don't exist, even when the hatcheting is puerile and semi-literate as was mine in the Sunday Times. So I at least acknowledge these two, and I'll dig them up eventually.