{"product_id":"9781531227555","title":"The Gates of Chance","description":"We like Van Tassel Sutphen's work a lot -- open up and read a bit to see why; jhe'a an enoormourly lucid and engaging writer -- but, try as we might, we've had a hard time finding much out about him. Oh, there are a few lines in the Science Fiction encyclopedia to the effect that he was an American writer who lived from 1861 to 1945; that he wrote a bunch of golf stories, and a terse description of his 1906 postholocaust novel, _The Doomsman._ (Yes, 1906 -- bet you thought all this end-of-the-world thinking came out of the inventionn of the A Bomb, but no, Sutphen just barely lived to see that.) The Tuck encyclopedia adds his place of birth (Philadelphia) and lists a bunc of indivivual stories. But we'd love to know more, and can't imagine how we'd learn it. Sigh. At least the work's still available to read: enjoy it; he really was a fine writer.","brand":"Clue Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132613640432,"sku":"9781531227555","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781531227555_p0.jpg?v=1763740345","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781531227555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}