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02078aam a2200409 i 4500 001 3BB914ECFCF111ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220706010037 008 210721s2022 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 0857669729 020 $a 9780857669728 035 $a (OCoLC)1260819425 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OPW $d OCLCQ $d SDG $d SO$ $d NHS $d IWB $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3607.R45278 $b M47 2022 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220503 100 1 $a Greene, R. W. W. 245 10 $a Mercury rising / $c R.W.W. Greene ; edited by Eleanor Teasdale and Paul Simpson. 264 1 $a London, UK : $b Angry Robot, $c 2022. 300 $a 378 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 0 $a [Mercury rising ; $v Book I] 500 $a Includes an excerpt from the sequel Earth retrograde. 520 $a The year is 1975 - Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother's rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder. So, his choices are limited - rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. 650 0 $a Human-alien encounters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imaginary wars and battles $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 650 0 $a Alternative histories (Fiction) 700 1 $a Teasdale, Eleanor, $e editor. 700 1 $a Simpson, Paul, $d 1963- $e editor. 700 1 $i prequel to: $a Greene, R. W. W. $t Earth retrograde. 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010034006.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024835.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220708011123.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023005.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3BB914ECFCF111ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search