Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special) - Softcover

Kadrey, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441528139 ISBN 13: 9780441528134

Publisher: Ace, 1988

Synopsis

When a strange plague turns Los Angeles into a death-ridden city and the alien Alpha Rats are blamed, street-wise drug dealer Jonny is forced to find a cure, even if it means leaving Earth

About this title

From the Back Cover

The cult-classic dystopian cyberpunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey, after twenty years, now back in print in a special signed, collectible edition

Welcome to our future: L.A. in the late twenty-first century—a segregated city of haves and have-nots, where morality is dead and technology rules. Here, a small wealthy group secludes 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 in order to survive.

Jonny was born into this Hobbesian paradise. A streetwise 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.

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey has published nine novels, including Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha from Hell, Devil Said Bang, Kill City Blues, The Getaway God, Killing Pretty, Butcher Bird, and Metrophage, 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. A freelance writer and photographer, he lives in San Francisco, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441528139
• ISBN 13: 9780441528134
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240