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METROPHAGE
New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey's first novelthe cult classic dystopian cyberpunk talenow back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible edition.
Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st centurya 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 marketnarcotics that heal the body and cool the mindhe 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 cureif there is one.
New York Times bestselling author, freelance writer and photographer Richard Kadrey has published nine novels, and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, his short story Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye, was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award, and Butcher Bird was nominated for the Prix Elbakin in France.
METROPHAGE.
Ein Cyberpunk-Roman
Deutsch von Kurt Bracharz
[PB: Heyne 1990]
Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st centurya 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 marketnarcotics that heal the body and cool the mindhe 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 cureif there is one.
New York Times bestselling author, freelance writer and photographer Richard Kadrey has published nine novels, and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, his short story Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye, was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award, and Butcher Bird was nominated for the Prix Elbakin in France.
METROPHAGE.
Ein Cyberpunk-Roman
Deutsch von Kurt Bracharz
[PB: Heyne 1990]
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Published 1988-02-01 by Ace Books |