{"product_id":"casindra-lost-series-book-1","title":"Casindra Lost: Paradisi Chronicles (Lost Missions Series Book 1)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCasindra Lost is a limited deluxe,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehardcover colour edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof the paperback first published in 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\"there’s a difference between being a loner and being alone\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 3.5 year mission from which they'll never return, a 2.5 million lightyear journey to another galaxy, a 1.5 member crew comprising a solitary captain and a half-baked AI...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Sideris is a loner and knows LETO ships like nobody else, having risen to command the Lunar-Earth construction fleet, as they build ships to mine asteroids and colonize Mars. Suddenly he finds the colonization effort is for another planet, in another galaxy, and he's the sole human guinea pig being gated through a wormhole with an AI playing Noah to LETO SS Casindra's ark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverything goes well as he starts to survey four planets they plan to exploit, as he gets to know emergent AI 'Al', as he discovers he's building a special relationship with empathic cat 'Simba'. Problem is message drones gated home are not being returned per protocol, with little explanation, no supplies, and some cryptic and disturbing messages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart survival story, part mystery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCasindra Lost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a gripping sci-fi tale in the tradition of Clarke and Asimov, set within the multi-author Paradisi Chronicles universe. The first book in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLost Mission Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, it answers the questions behind the lost missions that set the stage for Paradisi’s epic colonization stories while somehow disappearing from history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt's not the old man and the sea, but the old man and the galaxy.\u003cbr\u003eIt's not Alice down the rabbithole, but Sideris down the wormhole.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"1M1 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55120572711217,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/0069\/2785\/files\/Marti-Ward_Casindra-Lost_front-cover-sml.jpg?v=1777777869","url":"https:\/\/1m1books.com\/products\/casindra-lost-series-book-1","provider":"1M1 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}