{"product_id":"9781473233546","title":"The Folded Sky","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Elizabeth Bear\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction | Space opera\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e June 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Gollancz) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 496 pages \u003cbr\u003e233mm x 154mm x 41mm | 598g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Sunyata Song must travel across the Milky Way to learn to communicate with the greatest discovery of her century: an artificial intelligence the size of a stellar system, in Hugo Award-winning author Bear's next science fiction epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformation doesn't want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunya Song's job is to stop that from happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's an archinformist: a specialist historian whose job usually involves sitting at a console at her university job near the Galactic Core, sorting ancient documents and restoring corrupted files. But now, the research opportunity of a lifetime has sent her - and her family - halfway across the galaxy to save the archaeological find of the century: an ancient alien artificial intelligence called the Baomind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs vast as a stellar system, the Baomind orbits a dying red giant, and the star's time has nearly ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remote research station and its small fleet of ships come under attack by fanatic Freeport pirates who believe that artificial intelligence is an abomination that must be destroyed, putting the lives of Sunya and her family at risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTens of thousands of light years from home, isolated from all help, Sunya is the only one who can save them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Elizabeth Bear'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has created a fascinating and complete universethat blends high-tech gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion' Publishers Weekly'Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and [the White Space novels] brim with heady concepts and sleek far-future hardware'  Financial Times'Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and crackling dialogue' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55335681589623,"sku":"9781473233546","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781473233546.jpg?v=1750325915","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781473233546","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}