{"product_id":"the-solar-queen","title":"The Solar Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdventure in Space  In 1955  Norton introduced Dane Thorson  an apprentice cargo-master who signed on with the independent cargo ship Solar Queen looking for a career in off-world trade. Here are the first two star-spanning tales of Dane Thorson and the Solar Queen.  In Sargasso of Space  the free-traders of the Solar Queen win exclusive rights to all tradable goods discovered on the planet Limbo. The crew arrives to find the planets surface charred  signs of life sparse. Worse yet  a strange pulse emanating from the planet itself may keep the Queen from lifting off. The traders find a secret valley with life  but others may still lurk in rocky caves below. The traders must solve the mysteries of Limbo if they hope to escape the planet  let alone come away with some saleable goods.  In Plague Ship  the Queen travels to Sargol  homeworld to a race of sentient felines  the Salariki. Sargol promises a wealth of exquisite gems to trade-if the crew can overcome the natives mistrust. But their troubles have only just begun. When a mysterious soon overtakes all the crew except the four youngest  the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it to be destroyed on sight. The apprentices discover alien beings aboard the Queen  and realize the illness may be connected to the aliens. With every ship in the galaxy searching for them  the crew has one chance to save the Solar Queen: broadcast their plight throughout the galaxy. But the one station able to do this is on Earth  at Patrol headquarters  which ordered the Solar Queens destruction!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962859483189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765300540","price":41.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765300546.jpg?v=1770398966","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-solar-queen","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}