{"product_id":"the-arcadian-incident-paperback","title":"The Arcadian Incident - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStickland Andrew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook 1 in the Mars Alone Trilogy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 2312 and Leo Fischer is a fifteen-year-old computer whizz on his first ever journey off Earth. He's heading to the moon colony to help his mother Lillian with her scientific work. But before he can reach her, she is kidnapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetermined to find and rescue her, Leo has no choice but to accept the help of his newest friend, Skater Monroe, the daughter of a shuttle pilot and already an experienced space traveller. Their investigation leads them to an old freighter captain with a strange story about two spaceships: one a long-lost piece of junk called the Arcadian; the other, a sleek, ultra-modern ship of mysterious origin. Both craft are involved in some kind of cover-up, and Leo and Skater become convinced the conspirators are the same people who kidnapped Leo's mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDodging space pirates as well as a ruthless assassin in the pay of the soon-to-be president of Mars, they stumble upon a secret that could lead to all-out war in the solar system. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first instalment of Andrew Stickland's \u003ci\u003eMars Alone Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e is a gravity-defying thrill-ride into the human race's all-too-believable future in space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Stickland\u003c\/b\u003e is a prize-winning poet and short-story writer whose work has variously been published by the British Fantasy Society, Games Workshop, the Royal Statistical Society and \u003ci\u003eThe Economist.\u003c\/i\u003e He studied law at University College London, then creative writing at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He lives in Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732481511487,"sku":"9781785633485","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4ae1b9100e22ccee9cf289b97e7c19b2.webp?v=1765132646","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-arcadian-incident-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}