{"product_id":"dichronauts-paperback","title":"Dichronauts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Egan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugo Award-winning hard science fiction master Greg Egan returns with a new novel featuring one of science fiction's most unusual worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a \"dark cone\" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Egan\u003c\/b\u003e is a computer programmer, and the author of the acclaimed SF novels \u003ci\u003ePermutation City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeranesia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarantine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Orthogonal trilogy, all published by Night Shade Books. He has won the Hugo Award as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Egan's short fiction has been published in a variety of places, including \u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsimov's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770905297184,"sku":"9781597809405","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/70afa09d870f02da675dc3d52636af88.webp?v=1780380541","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dichronauts-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}