{"product_id":"red-planet-blues-9781473200081b","title":"Red Planet Blues","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRobert J. Sawyer, the author of such 'revelatory and thought-provoking' novels as\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e TRIGGERS\u003c\/span\u003e and The \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWWW \u003c\/span\u003eTrilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his HUGO and NEBULA AWARD-nominated novella \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIDENTITY THEFT\u003c\/span\u003e and his AURORA AWARD-winning short story '\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBiding Time\u003c\/span\u003e', set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper …\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up 40 years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers - lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O'Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what he'll dig up ...","brand":"Gollancz","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819830186064,"sku":"9781473200081B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781473200081-l.jpg?v=1785877536","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/red-planet-blues-9781473200081b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}