{"product_id":"the-empress-of-mars-paperback","title":"The Empress of Mars - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKage Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For my money, The Empress of Mars is the one to read.\" --Mike Resnick, author of Starship: Rebel \"Of all the gin joints in all the towns on all of Mars, the Empress is the one to visit. Let's raise a round to Kage Baker.\" --Jack McDevitt, author of The Devil's EyeMary Griffith started her career on a colonized Mars in the twenty-fourth century as a xenobotanist for the British Arean Company. But when the company abandoned Mars in search of something more profitable, she had to find other work to support her three daughters. On a planet not yet fully terraformed, those who stayed are tenacious, outcasts--or criminals. Mary opens the Empress of Mars, the only bar on the planet. From an Italian heir turned space cowboy to a one-eyed heretic on the run to a con man, Mary collects a motley band of regulars--and when the BAC exerts pressure on the colony, her band of misfits must come together to stand up for the colonists, while the shadowy specter of the Company looms. A rollicking adventure in a Wild West frontier in space, The Empress of Mars is Kage Baker at the top of her game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKage Baker was an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and taught Elizabethan English as a second language. She is best known for the Company books featuring historical time-travel science fiction. Her books and stories were nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and won a Nebula and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she died on January 31, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46382066991239,"sku":"9781645061380","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/pNuRssVUf89781645061380.webp?v=1793400629","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-empress-of-mars-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}