Metrophage -- Richard Kadrey

<p><em>New York Times</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>His own life hanging in the balance, Jonny must risk everything to find the cure--if there is one.</p><p>The book will include a Q & A with Cory Doctorow.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Richard Kadrey<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Voyager<br><b>Published:</b> 11/04/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 320<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780062334480