{"product_id":"9781399640381","title":"Distraction - Bruce Sterling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a very smart, very funny book\" - Locus\"Enthralling and subversive\" - SF Commentary\"An excellent piece of future-gazing\" - Amazon ReviewerA Dutch Cold War is in full swing. The US is a shadow of its former self - its infrastructure is failing, and nomadic tribes roam freely among the states, living by no rules but their own. Oscar Valpariso - always impeccably dressed - is only half human, but he's master political strategist to potentially the next president. If he can straighten out his love life, gain control of a high-tech scientific facility, and solve a worldwide crisis that only he's noticed, America should be ripe for the taking . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bruce Sterling","offers":[{"title":"512 pages \/ 14\/05\/2026 \/ Science fiction","offer_id":57044584399223,"sku":"9781399640381","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781399640381.jpg?v=1780933982","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781399640381","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}