{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Distraction","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/distraction-1998","description":"It\u0026#39;s November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin doctor, Oscar has always made things look good. Now he wants to make a difference. But Oscar has a skeleton in his closet. His only ally: Dr. Greta Penninger, a gifted neurologist at the bleeding edge of the neural revolution. Together they\u0026#39;re out to spread a very dangerous idea whose time has come. And so have their enemies: every technofanatic, government goon, and laptop assassin in America. Oscar and Greta might not survive to change the world, but they\u0026#39;ll put a new spin on it. From the Paperback edition.","author_name":"Bruce Sterling","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/bruce-sterling-b7943444-1ec9-487d-af72-92c6f37a8f0a","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/31891888/7f9aea2ddaffcabe9087a1e2ab51e966eea9cd64.jpeg","thumbnail_width":288,"thumbnail_height":500}