{"product_id":"purgatory-mount-9781473230958","title":"Purgatory Mount","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePurgatory Mount\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gollancz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781473230958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Adam Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614475821237,"sku":"9781473230958","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ba4316c3-3225-479c-a8f3-15400fc5c8f2.jpg?v=1644901471","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/purgatory-mount-9781473230958","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}