{"product_id":"2940169520552","title":"Far Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view¿all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear¿s \u003ci\u003eJudgment Engine\u003c\/i\u003e. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly warming sun, and vast machine intelligences decide to recreate humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Kingsbury contributes \u003ci\u003eHistorical Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Haldeman¿s \u003ci\u003eFor White Hill\u003c\/i\u003e confronts humanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense against them. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future when humanity seems doomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAt the Eschaton\u003c\/i\u003e by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100438741232,"sku":"2940169520552","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169520552_p0.jpg?v=1769895954","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169520552","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}