{"product_id":"2940014087377","title":"The Stoker And The Stars","description":"_When you've had your ears pinned\u003cbr\u003e back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard\u003cbr\u003e to remember that an intelligent people\u003cbr\u003e has no respect for a whipped enemy ...\u003cbr\u003e but does for a fairly beaten enemy._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by van Dongen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnow him? Yes, I know him--_knew_ him. That was twenty years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverybody knows him now. Everybody who passed him on the street knows\u003cbr\u003ehim. Everybody who went to the same schools, or even to different\u003cbr\u003eschools in different towns, knows him now. Ask them. But I knew him. I\u003cbr\u003elived three feet away from him for a month and a half. I shipped with\u003cbr\u003ehim and called him by his first name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was he like? What was he thinking, sitting on the edge of his bunk\u003cbr\u003ewith his jaw in his palm and his eyes on the stars? What did he think he\u003cbr\u003ewas after?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell ... Well, I think he-- You know, I think I never did know him,\u003cbr\u003eafter all. Not well. Not as well as some of those people who're writing\u003cbr\u003ethe books about him seem to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI couldn't really describe him to you. He had a duffelbag in his hand\u003cbr\u003eand a packed airsuit on his back. The skin of his face had been dried\u003cbr\u003eout by ship's air, burned by ultraviolet and broiled by infra red. The\u003cbr\u003epupils of his eyes had little cloudy specks in them where the cosmic\u003cbr\u003erays had shot through them. But his eyes were steady and his body was\u003cbr\u003ehard. What did he look like? He looked like a man.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079872364784,"sku":"2940014087377","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087377_p0.jpg?v=1763600417","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}