{"product_id":"mercury-station-mark-von-schlegell-9781584350712","title":"Mercury Station: A Transit","description":"\u003cb\u003eIt's 2150, and Eddie Ryan is a prisoner on Mercury, ruled by the qompURE MERKUR: compelling future-history sci-fi by the author of \u003ci\u003eVenusia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark von Schlegell's debut novel \u003ci\u003eVenusia\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a \"breathtaking excursion\" and \"heady kaleidoscopic trip,\" establishing him as an important practitioner of vanguard science fiction. \u003ci\u003eMercury Station\u003c\/i\u003e, the second book in Von Schlegell's System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future. It is 2150. Eddard J. Ryan was born in a laboratory off Luna City, an orphan raised by the Black Rose Army, a radical post-Earth Irish revolutionary movement. But his first bombing went wrong and he's been stuck in a borstal on Mercury for decades. System Space has collapsed and most of human civilization with it, but Eddie Ryan and his fellow prisoners continue to suffer the remote-control domination of the borstal and its condescending central authority, the qompURE MERKUR, programmed to treat them as adolescents. Yet things could be worse. With little human supervision, the qompURE can be fooled. There's food and whiskey, and best of all, the girl of Eddie Ryan's dreams, his long-time friend and comrade Kor  McAllister, is in the same prison. When his old boss, rich and eccentric chrononaut Count Reginald Skaw shows up in orbit with an entire interstation cruiser at his disposal, there's even the possibility of escape... back in time. Like \u003ci\u003eVenusia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMercury Station\u003c\/i\u003e tells a compelling story, drawn through a labyrinth of future-history sci-fi, medieval hard fantasy, and cascading samplings of high and low culture. The book is a brilliant literary assault against the singularity of self and its imprisonment in Einsteinian spacetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Von Schlegell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584350717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584350712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 5.88w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2009 pg. 48","brand":"Mark Von Schlegell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073774481663,"sku":"9781584350712","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a854776c-1a23-43cb-a812-12fefcf7adff.jpg?v=1685449823","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mercury-station-mark-von-schlegell-9781584350712","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}