{"product_id":"9781939130341","title":"7 Billion Needles, Volume 2","description":"Modern day Japan is the stage for a new form of hard science-fiction, as  author Nobuaki Tadano revisits one of the  genre's Grand Masters, Hal  Clement, in his debut work 7 Billion Needles.  Loosely inspired by  Clement's golden age title Needle, 7 Billion Needles follows the life of  a teenage girl whose quiet boring days are dramatically changed when  her body is possessed by an alien life form caught up in an  intergalactic manhunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this second volume of 7 Billion  Needles, Hikaru is briefly lulled into a sense of normalcy.  As strange  as \"normal\" might seem to her now, \"happy days\" are much more welcomed  than the surreal days she experienced with Celistial. Having wasted  Maelstrom in a massive battle she has been freed from the voices in her  head(-phones) and is now moving on with her life with new found resolve.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo when she gets an opportunity to formally exorcise her  personal demons, which come in the form of painful memories of her  deceased father, Hikaru takes the first ferry to the Izu Islands to pay  her final respects. When she and her friends arrive and make their way  around Hikaru's ancestral home, they all quickly realize that they were  not alone making this trip. Not only is Maelstrom still around and  possibly more determined than ever to defeat Celestial, but Celestial  was never in Hikaru's headphones at all... He was in her blood all this  time! Making her bond to him almost as deep as her connection to her  family...","brand":"Kodansha USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154396397808,"sku":"9781939130341","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939130341_p0.jpg?v=1763663981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939130341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}