{"product_id":"metallic-realms-9781668058671","title":"Metallic Realms","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wildly inventive and entertaining novel about a sci-fi writing group whose fictional universe and personal dramas begin to collide and collapse from the critically acclaimed author of the \"timeless and original\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eThe Body Scout\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln's life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic pulp heroes of his youth. But these are pedestrian concerns--he has a greater calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles. Written collectively by Michael's best (and perhaps only) friend Taras K. Castle and his misfit sci-fi writing group, the Orb 4, the stories follow Captain Baldwin and his fearless crew on their mind-bending adventures across the Metallic Realms, from solar whales swallowing suns at the edge of spacetime to interstellar love triangles. These masterpieces have gone tragically unpublished--until now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the most urgent story Michael must tell takes place in the more intimate (if no less dramatic) confines of literary Brooklyn. Behind the greatest multiverse ever created, there are the all-too-mortal people who wrote it. As Michael chronicles the personal melodramas of the Orb 4 as well as the funhouse reflections in their fiction, the line between real and unreal becomes dangerously thin, and the true reasons for the group's fallout begin to emerge. As he labors away in hiding, Michael has just one mission: to bring the Metallic Realms to the world. No matter the cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetallic Realms\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-breaking ode to golden-age science fiction, friendship, creativity, and the power and perils of storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668058671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2025 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lincoln Michel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187196125365,"sku":"9781668058671","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5221f9b3-1856-4347-b4d2-7b27f66e5e5f.jpg?v=1742271415","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/metallic-realms-9781668058671","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}