{"product_id":"book-bcbb","title":"Far Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view-all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's \u003ci\u003eJudgment Engine\u003c\/i\u003e. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly warming sun, and vast machine intelligences decide to recreate humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Kingsbury contributes \u003ci\u003eHistorical Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Haldeman's \u003ci\u003eFor White Hill\u003c\/i\u003e confronts humanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense against them. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future when humanity seems doomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAt the Eschaton\u003c\/i\u003e by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skyboat Media","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49388081119536,"sku":"BDbcbb","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49388081152304,"sku":"ZEbcbb","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49388081217840,"sku":"ZMbcbb","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bcbb-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775772845","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bcbb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}