{"product_id":"black-star-rising","title":"Black Star Rising","description":"Description for BLACK STAR RISING by Frederik Pohl: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\"Take us to your leader, if you can...\"\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nWhen a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President -- not even a United States. In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most People, \"USA\" and \"USSR\" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so on Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collect Farm -- near Biloxi, Mississippi -- is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettman to Spaceman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42954432020696,"sku":"0345319028","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/BlackStarRising.jpg?v=1654987528","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/black-star-rising","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}