Transmeteropoliten. Book 1. Again in the city. Thirst for life. Ellis U.

Spider Jerusalem is Hunter Thompson of the Coming days, a gonzo-journalist in the era of the winning cyberpunk. Having made a name by political reports, and the fortune of the book on the election campaign “A shot in the face”, Spider buys a house on a distant mountain and leaves the city, when a candidate from the “Party of Law and Order” becomes president, which everyone calls the monster with the light hand of Spider.

Fighting out of the neighbors with minefields and smart guns, Spider enjoys the loneliness of five blessed years until he is overtaken by a call from the editor. Spider owed two new books to the publisher and spent an advance for a long time.

you can’t write anything: you have to return to the city, because Spider is not able to create somewhere else; In a city that "never allowed himself to rot or decompose. It is uncontrollably growing in all directions, it is fueled by thousands of different cultures and thousands of new ones that are born every day. ”

In a city where advertising is broadcast directly into the brain, thawed aliens from the 20th century are trying to survive shock from meeting with the future, aliens from the Vilnius colony are trading in their genome, and the authorities and the police are creating that they will please them.