{"product_id":"9781429977890","title":"The Chronoliths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Chronoliths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e stands with his best.\" - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory . . .sixteen years in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery-and a final battle with the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chronoliths\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Superb.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred Review)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46433014546673,"sku":"9781429977890","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781429977890_p0.jpg?v=1766596773","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429977890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}