Metropolitan - Hardcover

Williams, Walter Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061052124 ISBN 13: 9780061052125

Publisher: Harper Prism, 1995

Synopsis

Pining away in a dead-end job for which she endlessly meters out a powerful energy substance known as plasm, Aiah discovers an unlimited plasm supply and arranges a daring plan with a mysterious rebel to overthrow the government

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From the Back Cover:

THE GLORY HOLE

Better than sex, better than drugs, plasm is the solvent of mind and matter once called magic. In the world-wide city of the future, generating plasm is a science, its deployment a technology – and it’s metered at the domestic end. That is, the rich have plenty, the poor next to none. Aiah is a bored clerk with the Plasm Authority until she stumbles upon an unmapped well of the coveted stuff. A thousand Angels of Power sing in Aiah’s mind.

Constantine, Metropolitan in exile, mage and revolutionary, is happy to buy, illegally, all the plasm Aiah has to offer. But he wants more than plasm from Aiah. Along with ambitious wizards, human dolphins, gene twisted avians and a demon living in the plasm mains, Aiah can help Constantine to challenge the Ascended Ones themselves. Unless she burns out.

“A great talent”
INTERZONE

“Ingenious and energetic and knowing”
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Prism
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0061052124
• ISBN 13: 9780061052125
• Binding: Hardcover