{"product_id":"purgatory-mount","title":"Purgatory Mount","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship''s crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline''s private network and recover the secret inside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePurgatory Mount\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam Roberts''s first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts''s novels it''s not quite like anything else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 BSFA award for Best Novel!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314672968062,"sku":"NW9781473230958","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781473230958.jpg?v=1778658304","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/purgatory-mount","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}