{"product_id":"book-2fqd","title":"The Ancient Alien Machine Hidden Inside a Dead Asteroid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvan Latham is running out of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree days from financial default and struggling to keep his aging hauler operational, he takes a chance on a marginal asteroid claim that should contain little more than disappointing nickel and iron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen his scanners detect something impossible beneath the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden deep inside the dead rock is a structure with curves too precise for geology, internal spaces too organized for chance, and materials his instruments cannot understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it may not be dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a desperate attempt to turn an unexpected discovery into financial survival quickly becomes something far more dangerous. The buried structure responds to intrusion, changes its own boundaries, and reveals evidence of technology created by an intelligence operating on a scale beyond anything humanity has encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Evan is not the only one interested in what he has found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs corporations, station authorities, scavengers, and competing interests close in, the discovery becomes a battle over ownership, secrecy, survival, and who will control humanity's first encounter with technology from another civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Evan learns the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe machine inside the asteroid is not an isolated artifact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is part of something much larger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is beginning to wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ancient Alien Machine Hidden Inside a Dead Asteroid is a science fiction thriller about first contact, ancient extraterrestrial technology, corporate power, survival, and the moment humanity realizes that the universe has been waiting far longer than anyone imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67724679282992,"sku":"BD2fqd","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2fqd-Square-cover.png?v=1788455128","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2fqd","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}