{"product_id":"judas-mandala-9780671450328","title":"Judas Mandala","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat  attacked  drugged into panic and rapture  seduced  drawn into conspiracy  shes flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull- Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power-she learns that she is historys first true time traveler  hunted by friend and foe to the end of time. The entire future of the cosmos will be reset by these terrifying events. The Judas Mandala introduced the terms \"virtual reality\" and \"virtual matrix \" anticipating Frank Tiplers influential Omega Point Theory  William Gibsons cyberpunk fiction  and The Matrix... A new Afterword describes the strange publishing history of this ground-breaking novel  and includes the full text of an omitted chapter. \"Experience an epic sense of immensity: an inkling of humanits perhaps limitless possibilities within the strangeness of our universe.\" -Australian Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616057098293,"sku":"ByrdShop_0671450328","price":65.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780671450328.jpg?v=1791202990","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/judas-mandala-9780671450328","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}