{"product_id":"times-agent-paperback","title":"Time's Agent - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Peynado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"All at once a meditation on motherhood, grief, war, environmental collapse, dread, and the nature of memory and time. I ate it up.\"--Lauren Groff, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA multiverse story of love, loss, time travel, and final-stage capitalism from award-winning author Brenda Peynado.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePocket World--a geographically small, hidden offshoot of our own reality, sped up or slowed down by time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing humanity's discovery of pocket worlds, teams of academics embarked on groundbreaking exploratory missions, eager to study this new technology and harness the potential of a seemingly limitless horizon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What would you do, given another universe, a do-over?\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArcheologist Raquel and her wife, Marlena, once dreamed the pocket worlds held the key to solving the universe's mysteries. But forty years later, pocket worlds are now controlled by corporations squeezing every penny out of all colonizable space and time, Raquel herself is in disgrace, and Marlena lives in her own pocket universe (that Raquel wears around her neck) and refuses to speak to her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStanding in the ruins of her dream and her failed ideals, Raquel seizes one last chance to redeem herself and confront what it means to save something--or someone--from time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Peynado's genre-bending short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Rock Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e--featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones--was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature's\u003c\/i\u003e best books of the year. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751720288544,"sku":"9781250854315","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f5acfda68632bf7b72c9e3469b415855.webp?v=1779978603","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/times-agent-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}