{"product_id":"2940013684690","title":"ACCIDENTAL DEATH","description":"The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with\u003cbr\u003eice crystals. All the way up the half-mile precipice it fingered and\u003cbr\u003ewrenched away at groaning ice-slabs. It screamed over the top, whirled\u003cbr\u003esnow in a dervish dance around the hollow there, piled snow into the\u003cbr\u003elong furrow plowed ruler-straight through streamlined hummocks of snow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sun glinted on black rock glazed by ice, chasms and ridges and\u003cbr\u003ebridges of ice. It lit the snow slope to a frozen glare, penciled black\u003cbr\u003eshadow down the long furrow, and flashed at the furrow's end on a thing\u003cbr\u003eof metal and plastics, an artifact thrown down in the dead wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing grew, nothing flew, nothing walked, nothing talked. But the\u003cbr\u003ething in the hollow was stirring in stiff jerks like a snake with its\u003cbr\u003eback broken or a clockwork toy running down. When the movements stopped,\u003cbr\u003ethere was a click and a strange sound began. Thin, scratchy, inaudible\u003cbr\u003emore than a yard away, weary but still cocky, there leaked from the\u003cbr\u003eshape in the hollow the sound of a human voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've tried my hands and arms and they seem to work,\" it began. \"I've\u003cbr\u003ewiggled my toes with entire success. It's well on the cards that I'm all\u003cbr\u003ein one piece and not broken up at all, though I don't see how it could\u003cbr\u003ehappen. Right now I don't feel like struggling up and finding out. I'm\u003cbr\u003efine where I am. I'll just lie here for a while and relax, and get some\u003cbr\u003eof the story on tape. This suit's got a built-in recorder, I might as\u003cbr\u003ewell use it. That way even if I'm not as well as I feel, I'll leave a\u003cbr\u003emessage. You probably know we're back and wonder what went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I suppose I'm in a state of shock. That's why I can't seem to get up.\u003cbr\u003eWho wouldn't be shocked after luck like that?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've always been lucky, I guess. Luck got me a place in the _Whale_.\u003cbr\u003eSure I'm a good astronomer but so are lots of other guys. If I were ten\u003cbr\u003eyears older, it would have been an honor, being picked for the first\u003cbr\u003elong jump in the first starship ever. At my age it was luck.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070200168688,"sku":"2940013684690","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013684690_p0.jpg?v=1763584362","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013684690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}