{"product_id":"9780993595776","title":"Worlds Like Dust: The Battle for Earth - Part 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook 1, Running: The Alien in the MIrror is only available free online\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe battle for Earth threatens to eclipse Jake's soul!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe jackal-headed Ischians are here! When General Jake Nanden retired from the USAC, he could never have guessed that his greatest battle was still to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince then, he has joined a spiritual cult called the Blue Path, trying to establish communication with a few peaceful Ischians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut now his world has been torn apart; his wife and youngest son have been killed, probably his eldest too and the Los Angeles and Washington citizens sweat it out under inescapable alien domes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis son, Stone, warned him of the invasion and he joined up with Gary Enquine to form a rudimentary resistance network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, they must find a way to rise up and defeat the conquerors of Earth! Nanden must escape and unite the remaining human and clone forces, scattered across the Solar System.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut time is running out! Soon, a necklace of giant starships will encircle the Earth and enclose it within a giant, inescapable force field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tense, all-action sci-fi thriller never lets you pause for breath and the action could be compared with Starship Troopers or Star Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it's not just superficial action, there is the deeper thread of Jake Nanden's own journey as a reconstructed replicant or clone and the struggle of the last humans in a world increasingly controlled by replicants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely and beautiful Science Fiction with a twist, if you love Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov or Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, you will like this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories: fiction, science fiction, alien, thriller, first contact, clones, starship, genes, invasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Future City Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021227573488,"sku":"9780993595776","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780993595776_p0.jpg?v=1763899679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780993595776","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}