{"product_id":"earth-the-grand-tour-9780765397195","title":"Earth (The Grand Tour)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova  author of Apes and Angels and Survival  A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light  killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years.  Humans were helped by the Predecessors  who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return  the Predecessors asked humankinds help to save other intelligent species that are in danger of being annihilated.  But what of Earth? With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity  humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise  at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontented young people to the outer planets and asteroid mines has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld  and those tensions are about to explode into open war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647241478197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765397196","price":33.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765397195.jpg?v=1781690515","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/earth-the-grand-tour-9780765397195","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}