
Metrophage by Richard Kadrey is a cyberpunk novel set in a future, dystopian Los Angeles where a street hustler named Jonny Qabbala gets caught up in a conspiracy involving a strange disease outbreak and a government organization. The story is fast-paced, dark, and gritty, filled with violence, over-the-top dialogue, and quirky characters like Johnny's housemates Ice and Sumi.
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Content warnings for Metrophage include violence, drug use, explicit sexual scenes, and themes of disease and decay.
Has Romance?
There are romantic elements in the novel, particularly involving the protagonist Johnny and his relationships with two women.
From The Publisher:
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.
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