{"title":"Harry Turtledove","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarry Turtledove\u003c\/strong\u003e is renowned for weaving intricate tales that blend history with speculative imagination. Readers can immerse themselves in his richly detailed worlds, where alternate histories and speculative futures challenge the boundaries of time and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a strong foundation in \u003cem\u003esci-fi and fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e, Turtledove’s stories often explore the what-ifs of history, blending engaging narratives with thought-provoking twists. His work invites readers to reconsider familiar events through a fresh, imaginative lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"three-miles-down-by-harry-turtledove-9781250891198","title":"Three Miles Down","description":"It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret \"Project Azorian\" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean-and they really don't take \"no\" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of Jerry's immediate problems.\n\nJoining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft.\n\nJerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go.\n\nAnd meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast--and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244783349996,"sku":"9781250891198","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250891198-three-miles-down-1.jpg?v=1788013802"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/harry-turtledove.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}