{"product_id":"sensation-paperback","title":"Sensation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Mamatas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove. Politics. Parasitic manipulation. Julia Hernandez left her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then vanished without a trace. Well, perhaps one or two traces were left... With different personal and consumption habits, Julia has slipped out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum--a place between the cracks of our existence from which human history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyperintelligent spiders. When Julia's ex-husband Raymond spots her in a grocery store he doesn't usually patronize, he's drawn into an underworld of radical political gestures and Internet organizing looking to overthrow a ruling class it knows nothing about--and Julia is the new media sensation of both this world and the Simulacrum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Told ultimately from the collective point of view of another species, \u003cem\u003eSensation\u003c\/em\u003e plays with the elements of the Simulacrum we all already live in: media reports, businessspeak, blog entries, text messages, psychological evaluation forms, and the always fraught and kindly lies lovers tell one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Mamatas is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eMove Under Ground \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Under My Roof\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Might Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has been translated into German, Italian, and Greek, and he has been nominated for the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards and the Kurd Lasswitz Prize. He is the coeditor of the online magazine \u003ci\u003eClarkesworld \u003c\/i\u003eand his essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eClamor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSmart Set\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Oakland, California.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770847854880,"sku":"9781604863543","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30e2f126bb8bb49e75feed6d1e6ba0f0.webp?v=1780379423","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sensation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}