{"product_id":"9781466842823","title":"Learning the World: A Scientific Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ancient starship \u003ci\u003eBut the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!\u003c\/i\u003e is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system's Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start learning the world all over again.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129777176816,"sku":"9781466842823","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466842823_p0.jpg?v=1769891289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466842823","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}