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Name: Metrophage

Author: Richard Kadrey
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Science fiction, Cyberpunk

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ISBNs:
9781888869187
9780062334480
1888869186
0062334484

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's first novel'the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale'now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible edition. Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st century'a segregated city of haves and have nots, where morality is dead and technology rules. Here, a small group of wealthy seclude themselves in gilded cages. Beyond their high security compounds, far from their pretty comforts, lies a lawless wasteland where the angry masses battle hunger, rampant disease, and their own despair to survive. Jonny was born into this Hobbesian paradise. A street-wise hustler who deals drugs on the black market'narcotics that heal the body and cool the mind'he looks out for nobody but himself. Until a terrifying plague sweeps through L.A., wreaking death and panic. And no one, not even a clever operator like Jonny, is safe. His own life hanging in the balance, Jonny must risk everything to find the cure'if there is one. The book will include a Q & A with Cory Doctorow.