Pam Jaffee of HarperCollins writes with news about Richard Kadrey‘s Metrophage. She says “Los Angeles has always been the literary wasteland of acclaimed author Richard Kadrey’s imagination.  Anyone who has read Kadrey’s ‘Sandman Slim’ oeuvre knows that he’s recast Tinseltown into (a veritable) hell-on-earth.  (Odd that he never seems to visit such destruction on his own city by the Bay…)

“Kadrey’s vision of L.A. as a dystopic hotspot can be traced back to the ’80s era of literate cyberpunk, when he first released Metrophage, which Harper Voyager is re-releasing this autumn in a special, signed, collectible hardcover edition.  The novel, although long readily available online in a downloadable edition, deserves to be made readily available to Kadrey’s growing reader base, as well as to all aficionados of dystopic (and destructive) fiction.”

Kadrey himself offers this description of the story: “Welcome to Los Angeles, where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny’s world. He’s a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange new plague turns L.A. into a city of death—and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure… if it can be found on earth.”