Metrophage

<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>