{"product_id":"world-engines-destroyer","title":"World Engines: Destroyer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but \u003ci\u003eReid Malenfant\u003c\/i\u003e, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, \u003ci\u003eEmma Stoney\u003c\/i\u003e, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a \u003ci\u003eStar Trek \u003c\/i\u003ewithout the stars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call \u003ci\u003eEmma II\u003c\/i\u003e, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved . . . His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining . . . But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791348166835,"sku":"9781473223196","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478189019781473223196.jpg?v=1762856485","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/world-engines-destroyer","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}