{"product_id":"9780765342850","title":"Permanence","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eYoung Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize - and perhaps control - the Compact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of Rue's quest to visit and claim this ship and its treasures, set against a background of warring empires, strange alien artifacts, and fantastic science. It is a story of hope and danger, of a strange and compelling religion, Permanence, unique to this star-faring age, and of the re-birth of life and belief in a place at the edge of forever.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Karl Schroeder (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":52970654728352,"sku":"9780765342850","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ea46f2e7-bd36-4569-86fc-6ebba749c225.jpg?v=1761166847","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780765342850","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}