{"product_id":"traces-9780008134563","title":"Traces","description":"\u003cp\u003eStories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are visions of histories which differ from our own, either through small changes - what if Germany had won WWI (`Mittelwelt') - or through a fundamental difference in physical laws - what if Archimedes had been right in his clockwork-like cosmological vision (`No Longer Touch the Earth').\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are visions of futures in which people struggle to survive in a variety of bizarre environments (`Downstream', `The Blood of Angels'), or, weakened and powerless, inhabit the end of worlds (`Inherit the Earth', `George and the Comet').\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are explorations of astonishing events of our own lifetimes, in particular the grand expansion into space (`Zemlya', `Moon Six', `Pilgrim 7').\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese visions give an impression of the contingency of our everyday here-and-now, surrounded as it is by an infinite array of possible pasts, presents, and futures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42974002839718,"sku":"9780008134563","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780008134563_1.jpg?v=1656049776","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/traces-9780008134563","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}