{"product_id":"the-chronoliths-9780765325280","title":"The Chronoliths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugo Award nominee and winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years hence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in California, \u003cb\u003eRobert Charles Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Canada. He is the author of many acclaimed SF novels including the Hugo Award-winning \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Orb Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461032349970,"sku":"9780765325280","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_70d10a98-a07b-40f2-813b-641fc19eae68.jpg?v=1730052993","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chronoliths-9780765325280","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}