{"product_id":"the-reefs-of-time-jeffrey-a-carver-9781611387995","title":"The Reefs of Time: Part One of the \"Out of Time\" Sequence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient AI bent on destruction uses it to travel uptime, to humanity's future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mindaru are dead. Or so exiled-Earthman John Bandicut and his alien companions believe, after their intervention to save the Orion Nebula and surrounding worlds. But now a part of this ancient and malicious AI colony is swarming toward the present from its birthplace deep in the past. Their opening: a temporal disturbance in the starstream, a hyperspatial thoroughfare used by myriad civilizations. The disturbance emanates from the planetary defenses of nearby Karellia, whose people know nothing of the starstream or the galaxy-threatening Mindaru.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly Bandicut and his friends have the knowledge and experience to act. But when several of the company go missing, he and Li-Jared must team with the pandimensional Ruall and her gokat--the oddest aliens Bandicut has met since the shadow-people--and journey to Karellia to find a way to cut off the timestream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, on Shipworld, the \"missing\" Ik meets another human of Earth--a former lover of Bandicut's--and embarks with her on a perilous mission far back into deep time, seeking a way to stop the Mindaru at their source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Chaos Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e returns at last with part one of a heartstopping, two-part adventure. Concluded in \u003cem\u003eCrucible of Time\u003c\/em\u003e--coming soon from Nebula-nominated Jeffrey A. Carver!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey A. Carver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161138799X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611387995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Starstream Publications \/ Book View Cafe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.05d","brand":"Jeffrey A. Carver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48998496633087,"sku":"9781611387995","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reefs-of-time-jeffrey-a-carver-9781611387995","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}