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The killer has a terrifying new way of murdering her victims. Salvor Becky Wiley recovers a mysterious object from burned out suburbs in a balkanized Los Angeles. She does not sense the importance of the enigmatic artifact until the LAPD and FBI try to seize it. As Becky realizes that her salvage is too hot to handle, and as Jimmy concludes that the man paying him to find the killer is an extraterrestrial, this slow-motion apocalypse shifts into high gear. Pursued by cops and aliens, Becky and Jimmy converge on the Palm Springs Free City in secessionist Aztlán. When exotic artifact and serial killer meet, the near cataclysmic confrontation and the galaxy wrenching conclusion will determine the fate, not merely of Jimmy and Becky, but of all humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1% Free\u003c\/em\u003e is a near-future science fiction political thriller. This fast-paced novel has fascinating characters, a rollicking plot, stunning narratives, and sharp dialogue, all written in a slashing, evocative style. G.A. Matiasz explores utopian and dystopian themes, extreme politics on the radical left and right, wild-assed youth countercultures, and smart meditations on science, cartography, technology, and extinction, proving once again that Sci-Fi is our only literature of ideas. If \u003cem\u003e1% Free\u003c\/em\u003e is a fraction as prescient as his first novel, the 1994 underground classic \u003cem\u003eEnd Time\u003c\/em\u003e, humanity is in for some rough times. 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In Alabaster, a small town north of San Francisco, the novel's protagonist, Greg Kovinski, and a group of antiwar college students, gain possession of enough bomb-grade riemanium to build a nuclear weapon, and the City of Oakland rises in revolution to become the 21st century's Paris Commune.\u003cbr\u003e \"A compulsive readable thriller combined with a very smart meditation on the near-future of anarchism. \u003ci\u003eEnd Time\u003c\/i\u003e proves once again that Sci-Fi is our only literature of ideas.\"--Hakim Bey, author of \u003ci\u003eTAZ\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImmediatism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"G. A. 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