Futureland
by Walter Mosley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0446529540
- ISBN 13
- 9780446529549
- Seller
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Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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About This Item
But the world still turns, and folks still have to get by with the hands they're dealt, folks such as:
Ptolemy "Popo" Bent: This gentle backwoods child has a genius I.Q.- and a soul so pure that officials want him locked up forever.
Folio Johnson: A hardboiled, cyber-augmented private eye who can see beneath the dark poetry of the metropolis, he will need an even greater edge than that to find out who's systematically murdering rich, young Nazis.
Fera Jones: She's the boxing Queen of the Ring who must still fight all comers to save her dad, preserve her identity, and protect the fans who believe in her.
Dr. Ivan Kismet: The world's richest man, Macrocode's CEO is a tycoon, tyrant, and messiah who is evidently more powerful than God. So it's too bad for everyone that Dr. Kismet is utterly insane.
Walter Mosley brings to life the celebs, working stiffs, leaders, victims, technocrats, crooks, oppressors, and revolutionaries who inhabit a glorious all-American nightmare that's just around the corner. Welcome to Futureland.
Synopsis
The place is the United States. The time, the near future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine int
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 833
- Title
- Futureland
- Author
- Walter Mosley
- Format/Binding
- Book in very good shape, dust jacket has rough corners front and back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st hardback edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0446529540
- ISBN 13
- 9780446529549
- Publisher
- Aspect
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 356
- Keywords
- short stories, future, life from all walks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery Novels;
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Lemolo Books
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