{"product_id":"2940014203357","title":"The Repairman","description":"Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn’t be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I had to walk into the middle of that mess and repair the thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would have been easy enough if we were allowed a little mayhem. I could have had a lizard fry, fixed the beacon and taken off. Only \"native life-forms\" were quite well protected. There were spy cells on my ship, all of which I hadn't found, that would cheerfully rat on me when I got back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiplomacy was called for. I sighed and dragged out the plastiflesh equipment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * * * *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking from 3D snaps of Grandson, I modeled a passable reptile head over my own features. It was a little short in the jaw, me not having one of their toothy mandibles, but that was all right. I didn't have to look exactly like them, just something close, to soothe the native mind. It's logical. If I were an ignorant aborigine of Earth and I ran into a Spican, who looks like a two-foot gob of dried shellac, I would immediately leave the scene. However, if the Spican was wearing a suit of plastiflesh that looked...","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121128063216,"sku":"2940014203357","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014203357_p0.jpg?v=1763602875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014203357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}