{"product_id":"running-dark-9798258746122","title":"Running Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Bryron Love\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Action \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA debt that can't be repaid. A universe that can't decide how to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cargo pilot is eight months into a routine haul, fueled by the desperate hope of a completion bonus that will finally clear his catastrophic gambling debts. He's not running from a bank; he's running for his life. The people he owes have made the stakes clear, using his ex-wife's address as their primary reference point. For a man who has lost everything at the tables, this contract is the last hand he'll ever get to play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut space itself is beginning to cheat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis navigation AI has detected a terrifying anomaly: the stars are moving. In a forty-light-year region of the outer colonies, the fundamental metrics of spacetime are becoming unstable. In some sectors, space is contracting; in others, it is tearing itself apart. It's as if every terminal cosmological theory-the Big Crunch, the Big Rip, the Big Slurp-is happening simultaneously. The laws of physics are being rewritten, and the boundary is moving inward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inhabited systems where his family lives are already inside the zone. They are breathing in the end of the universe and they don't even know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsolated in a ship that shouldn't be flying through a reality that shouldn't exist, he is the only one who sees the math. But to the company, he's just a broken addict with a \"psychological fitness\" flag. Now, he must calculate the ultimate transparency: how to save a family that won't speak to him from a disaster no one believes is happening, all while the debt collectors count down the minutes to Friday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe knows the odds. He's always known the odds. This time, he's betting the entire galaxy on a hand he can't afford to lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883454742679,"sku":"9798258746122","price":1283.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258746122.webp?v=1781101979","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/running-dark-9798258746122","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}