{"product_id":"empty-between-the-stars-1","title":"Empty Between The Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the far future, humanity’s artificial intelligences have become gods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross a million worlds, mankind survives in their shadows, building societies of faith, fear, privilege and decay beneath powers too vast to understand. On the ever-night Moon of Hexator, where old hierarchies rot under artificial skies, merchant William Roxley has tried to leave his past behind. Once a magistrate-priest, he now wants little more than to trade, endure and avoid the machinery of justice he once served.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen murder comes for the Lords of the Great Houses, and Roxley is reluctantly drawn back into the role he thought he had escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a naive young assistant and a brutish robot bodyguard as his unlikely companions, Roxley must pick his way through a world of noble secrets, religious machinery, political lies and ancient technologies whose purposes may no longer be sane. Hexator is a society collapsing under the weight of its own history, and every clue leads deeper into a mystery where nothing is quite what it appears to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmpty Between the Stars is Book One of The Songs of Old Sol: a science fiction noir set in a dazzling, decaying far future. Blending murder mystery, space opera, theological machinery, strange worlds and darkly inventive adventure, it is a novel for readers who like their future history immense, their detectives reluctant, and their truths waiting in the dark with a knife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Green Nebula","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67012638245168,"sku":"9610694000050","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/empty-between-the-stars-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}