{"product_id":"9781921857164","title":"The 400-Million-Year-Itch","description":"The Silurian Tales Volume 1\u003cp\u003eThe 400-Million-Year Itch, Volume 1 of The Silurian Tales, represents the first volume of a master work by one of the SF genre's greatest short story writers.\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in Steven Utley's Silurian Tales have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, SciFiction, F\u0026amp;SF, and Cosmos, and have been beguiling readers with glimpses of prehistoric life since the mid-1990s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese tales have been described by Brian Stableford in Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia as \"[t]he most elaborate reconstruction of a past era in recent speculative fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series employs a variety of literary techniques in recounting the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era and also address some implications of the \"many-worlds\" hypothesis in quantum physics; several of the stories have been reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and the Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ticonderoga Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040114852080,"sku":"9781921857164","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921857164_p0.jpg?v=1763631827","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921857164","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}