{"product_id":"world-engines-destroyer-by-stephen-baxter-9781473223196","title":"World Engines: Destroyer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA hard-SF cli-fi saga set against the background of the birth of the solar system. Filled to the brim with big ideas and breathtaking worldbuilding.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts— but \u003ci\u003eReid Malenfant\u003c\/i\u003e, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, \u003ci\u003eEmma Stoney\u003c\/i\u003e, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, and ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e without the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call \u003ci\u003eEmma II\u003c\/i\u003e, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved . . . His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining . . . But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders are blown away by \u003ci\u003eWorld Engines: Destroyer\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The book \u003cb\u003equickly becomes epic in a massive, yet thoroughly believable way\u003c\/b\u003e, precisely because the story is grounded in all of these \u003cb\u003ewell-realised characters\u003c\/b\u003e' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It is \u003cb\u003ea really good Cli-Fi\u003c\/b\u003e but not only ecological . . . It touches on very many different topics that are very much in our future' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It's a \u003cb\u003egreat sci-fi\u003c\/b\u003e novel, \u003cb\u003ewell written and gripping\u003c\/b\u003e. I loved the \u003cb\u003eamazing world building\u003c\/b\u003e, the fleshed out cast of characters and the plot' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is \u003cb\u003ea complex book with a lot going on\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Suffice to say this was \u003cb\u003ea fantastic read with a great story, good characters\u003c\/b\u003e \u0026amp; a world that I would very much like to come back to' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The \u003cb\u003elarge scale is always where\u003c\/b\u003e...' - Goodreads reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709472395500,"sku":"9781473223196","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14369483482712.jpg?v=1754107606","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/world-engines-destroyer-by-stephen-baxter-9781473223196","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}