{"product_id":"world-engines-stephen-baxter-9781473223196","title":"World Engines: Destroyer","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eReid Malenfant\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eEmma Stoney\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eStar Trek \u003c\/i\u003ewithout the stars.After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call \u003ci\u003eEmma II\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Baxter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1473223199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781473223196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gollancz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.50d","brand":"Stephen Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993765052671,"sku":"9781473223196","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcf5914a-7b2e-4480-bc72-a68f66f29519.jpg?v=1683326183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/world-engines-stephen-baxter-9781473223196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}