{"product_id":"book-1eou","title":"Citizen Jell","description":"\u003cp\u003eMr. Jell lives quietly by a Florida river, fishing, watching clouds, and telling stories to children who believe him. They believe him because his stories are true. He is not human, and he is hiding from a civilization that forbids interference with worlds like Earth. His reward for breaking that rule is simple and profound: space, silence, and a sky no one else has time to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut peace becomes harder to defend when suffering moves closer. Drought shrivels the land. Crops fail. Fish die. A child loses her dog. Each problem has an easy solution, and every solution carries the same price-discovery. Mr. Jell can live with discomfort. He can live with guilt. What he cannot live with is the moment when refusing to act becomes an act of cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen Jell\u003c\/em\u003e is a quietly devastating story about restraint, responsibility, and the danger of loving a world that does not know what you are. Michael Shaara builds tension not through spectacle, but through accumulation, as each small refusal sharpens the next decision. The result is a story that tightens steadily, asking how long goodness can remain passive before it turns into something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Shaara is best known for his historical fiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Angels\u003c\/em\u003e, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Gettysburg. Earlier in his career, he published science fiction and fantasy in magazines such as \u003cem\u003eAstounding Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFantasy and Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, often focusing on moral pressure rather than technology. \u003cem\u003eCitizen Jell\u003c\/em\u003e reflects that approach exactly, using speculative tools to place one man under a burden he can no longer set down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":51195861238064,"sku":"BD1eou","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1eou-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773778758","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1eou","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}