{"product_id":"9781612423678","title":"Energized","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A taut near-future thriller”—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Should appeal to fans of hard sf and technothrillers.”—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An amazingly tense and for-all-the-marbles thriller.”—\u003cem\u003eSF Site\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world’s major oil fields with radioactivity and plunged the Middle East into chaos. Any oil that remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, wind farms, and electric cars quickly enough to cope. The few countries still able to export oil and natural gas—Russia chief among them—have a stranglehold on the world economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then, from the darkness of space, came Phoebe. Rather than divert the onrushing asteroid, America captured it into Earth orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolar power satellites—cheaply mass-produced in orbit with resources mined from the new moon, to beam vast amounts of power to the ground—offer America its last, best hope of avoiding servitude and economic ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs though building miles-across structures in space isn’t challenging enough, special interests, from technophobes to eco-extremists to radio astronomers, want to stop the project. And the remaining petro powers will do anything to protect their newfound dominance of world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNASA engineer Marcus Judson is determined to make the powersat demonstration project a success. And he will—even though nothing in his job description mentions combating an international cabal, or going into space to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arc Manor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041833599216,"sku":"9781612423678","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612423678_p0.jpg?v=1763845255","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612423678","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}