{"product_id":"9780765335098","title":"BURNING DARK","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Christopher's dazzling first novel, \u003ci\u003eEmpire State,\u003c\/i\u003e was named the Best Book of 2012 by\u003ci\u003e SciFi Now\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Dark.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. After saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace, overseeing the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station. \u003cbr\u003eThe station's reclusive commandant is nowhere to be seen. Persistent malfunctions plague the station's systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic. Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, fraying the nerves of everyone aboard. \u003cbr\u003eIsolated and friendless, Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune in to a strange, enigmatic signal: a woman's voice that echoes across a thousand light-years of space. But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past—or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehension?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029035925744,"sku":"9780765335098","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765335098_p0.jpg?v=1763659641","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765335098","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}