{"product_id":"permanence-9780765342850","title":"Permanence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePermanence\u003c\/strong\u003e by Schroeder, Karl. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780765342850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\n\nHer 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.\n\nThis is the story of Rues 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tor Science Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957099524149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765342855","price":61.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765342850_90989b98-0625-4440-b5e5-ea29b7a9350b.jpg?v=1781359533","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/permanence-9780765342850","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}