{"product_id":"9781473223196-world-engines-destroyer-a-post-climate-change-high-concept-science-fiction-odyssey","title":"World Engines: Destroyer A Post Climate Change High Concept Science Fiction Odyssey","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake In the mid - 21st century the Kernel a strange object on a five - hundred - year - orbit is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate - change crises there is no mood for space - exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant elderly once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would - be asteroid miner decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex - wife Emma Stoney sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural with recovered forests oceans ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars. After 500 years the Kernel returns and a descendant of Stoney who Malenfant will call Emma II mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive cryo - preserved His culture - shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole through which Malenfant and Emma II exploring further plummet back in time across five billion years\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: World Engines: Destroyer A Post Climate Change High Concept Science Fiction Odyssey\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Baxter Stephen\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781473223196\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 576 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Science Fiction","brand":"Baxter Stephen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56599857332529,"sku":"IN-G-9781473223196","price":48.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781473223196.jpg?v=1791030816","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781473223196-world-engines-destroyer-a-post-climate-change-high-concept-science-fiction-odyssey","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}