{"product_id":"2940171728946","title":"When Shadows Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eStar Trek¿s Captain Kirk has a kindred soul in Lars the Ranger, a  commander of his own star fleet. But whereas Kirk¿s mission is to boldly  go where no man has gone before, Lars is boldly going where other men  are-in a desperate attempt to save his home planet . . . Earth. He¿s not  exploring the final frontier. He is our last hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarth is way  past global warming. It¿s totally fried-an environmental disaster-and  most of its inhabitants have cut out for greener pastures, colonizing  distant worlds. Lars leads an expedition across the galaxy to visit  those worlds in hopes that he return with the resources needed to bring  Earth back from the brink of extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Lars has apparently  failed. A mammoth fleet of mysterious starships are descending on the  third planet from the sun. Is Earth history? Yes . . . and that may just  be its saving grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the spring of 1938, Hubbard¿s  stature as a writer was well established. As author and critic Robert  Silverberg puts it: he had become a ¿master of the art of narrative.¿  Hubbard¿s editors urged him to apply his gift for succinct  characterization, original plot, deft pacing and imaginative action to a  genre that was new, and essentially foreign, to him-science fiction and  fantasy. The rest is SciFi history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso includes  the science fiction adventures, Battling Bolto, the story of a giant,  con man who¿s running an interstellar scam, while the biggest trick of  all lies right under his nose; and Tough Old Man, in which an aging  constable¿s lack of feelings is not a matter of insensitivity, but of a  secret-and surprising-side of his character.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galaxy Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150978203888,"sku":"2940171728946","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171728946_p0.jpg?v=1763743445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171728946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}