{"product_id":"stellar-throne-wajira-buddhika-9798195163174","title":"Stellar Throne: Book One: The Catalyst","description":"Beneath the Terracotta Army, something has been waiting for five thousand years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was placed there in 3031 BCE. It woke in 969 CE. And in July 1969 -\u003cbr\u003ethe moment human beings first set foot on another world - it began to move. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow it is 2147. Humanity has built the Solar Empress, the most powerful\u003cbr\u003eartificial intelligence ever created. The orbital city of Continuum holds\u003cbr\u003ethe world's memory in lattices of light. The Encyclopedia of Human\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence catalogs every breakthrough of the Glass Age. From every\u003cbr\u003eangle, the human project looks like progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was never progress. It was preparation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a geological survey team in Xi'an returns eleven days of readings\u003cbr\u003eno instrument can explain, Lucas Hale is sent to investigate. A technician\u003cbr\u003ewho fixes machines by touching them, Lucas puts his bare hand against the\u003cbr\u003erock and understands immediately: this is not broken. This is working. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows draws together five people whose paths were never supposed\u003cbr\u003eto cross - a man who remembers everything, a woman who rewrites the\u003cbr\u003egenome, an orbital engineer tending the world's memory, a constructed\u003cbr\u003ebeing placed beneath Arctic ice before AGI existed, and the technician\u003cbr\u003ewho introduced a deliberate flaw into humanity's most powerful computing\u003cbr\u003estructure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat they find beneath Xi'an will reframe everything humanity has built.\u003cbr\u003eEvery technology it is proud of. Every step it has taken toward the stars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most dangerous thing in the solar system does not know it is being used. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSTELLAR THRONE is a science fiction series about the patience of darkness, \u003cbr\u003ethe cost of progress, and the specific kind of courage required when the\u003cbr\u003efoundations of the human project reveal what they were always built on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE CATALYST is Book One. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Cixin Liu's THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM, Peter Watts's BLINDSIGHT, \u003cbr\u003eand the long-horizon science fiction of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanislaw Lem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wajira Buddhika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195163174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Wajira Buddhika","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173030043903,"sku":"9798195163174","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stellar-throne-wajira-buddhika-9798195163174","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}