{"product_id":"the-spacetime-pool-paperback","title":"The Spacetime Pool - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection that includes the Nebula Award-winning titular novella and \"Light and Shadow,\" the story that begins the Saga of the Skolian Empire series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \"The Spacetime Pool,\" recent MIT grad Janelle Aulair is hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains when a man appears out of nowhere to request her help. Shaken by his impossible appearance, she steps away--and falls through a portal onto a beach in another universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e That's when Dominick, the man who waylaid Janelle, reveals she is part of a prophecy. It foretells a bizarre future: if Dominick marries Janelle, he'll depose his twin brother and become Emperor of the land. If Dominick doesn't marry her, his brother--a brutal tyrant who will do anything to keep his throne--will murder him. Janelle finds herself caught in a conflict that could destroy the realm. If that's not mind-blowing enough, she discovers books that prove this civilization achieved interstellar travel five \u003ci\u003ecenturies\u003c\/i\u003e ago. Yet now they're living in a culture that doesn't have electricity, riding two-horned creatures that definitely aren't horses, and sword-fighting. To find her way home, Janelle must figure out what happened between then and now . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spacetime Pool\u003c\/i\u003e also includes Catherine Asaro's first-ever published story, \"Light and Shadow,\" featuring Kelric, a popular character from the Saga of the Skolian Empire series, and an illustrated essay on the math in her fiction titled \"A Poetry of Angles and Dreams.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Catherine Asaro\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Readers seeking the harmonious meld of hard SF's rigor and human chemistry's heat should read Catherine Asaro's fiction.\" --\u003ci\u003eSciFi Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438393557215,"sku":"9781504079600","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SG8e1QOekM9781504079600.webp?v=1790096919","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-spacetime-pool-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}