{ "item_title" : "Shimmer", "item_author" : [" Kristopher Dunham "], "item_description" : "One world. One resource. A crystalline material the workers call shimmer. The interstellar economy runs on it.For ninety-one years, the colony on Prospect 18 has been extracting it. For ninety-one years, the formations have hummed with a resonance the workers feel in their teeth. The corporation calls it atmospheric variance.Nobody asks why the resonance is getting worse.Nobody asks what the founding survey sealed ninety-one years ago.Nobody asks until Cade.Reassigned to a zone nobody wants, Cade drills deeper than anyone has in decades. What he finds at fifty-eight meters his scanner can't classify - and his employer responds to in eleven minutes. Faster than Consolidated Extraction Partners has ever responded to anything.The shimmer isn't a mineral. The corporation knows it. And the planet has started to answer.SHIMMER is the opening novel in The Resonance - a hard science fiction series about the workers who pull a planet apart one crate at a time, the institutions that call catastrophe variance within acceptable parameters, and the slow, terrible revelation of what ninety-one years of extraction has woken up.For readers who loved: The institutional dread of Hugh Howey's WoolThe working-class hard SF of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan WakesThe slow-burn cosmic scale of Sue Burke's SemiosisThe first-contact unease of Peter Watts's BlindsightBook One ends on revelation, not cliffhanger. The mystery of Prospect 18 lands. The larger questions - what sent the signal, what else is listening - open into Book Two.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/825/786/9798257864735_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.99", "online_price" : "11.99", "our_price" : "11.99", "club_price" : "11.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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