{"product_id":"book-dlv2","title":"Past Master","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the High Castle\u003c\/i\u003e in this mind-bending science fiction classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 AD, where there is trouble in utopia: can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty as \"a genius, an oddball, a madman\"; Gene Wolfe calls him \"our most original writer.\" \u003ci\u003ePast Master\u003c\/i\u003e, long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson, deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49376508576048,"sku":"BDdlv2","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49376508608816,"sku":"ZEdlv2","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49376508641584,"sku":"ZMdlv2","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49376508674352,"sku":"40dlv2","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dlv2-Square-cover.jpg?v=1771590827","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dlv2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}