{"product_id":"angels-egg-a-positronic-book-paperback","title":"Angel's Egg: A Positronic Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdgar Pangborn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA quiet first-contact story of wonder, tenderness, and moral unease, Edgar Pangborn's \u003cem\u003eAngel's Egg\u003c\/em\u003e brings alien life into the human world not through invasion or conquest, but through mystery and fragile trust.\u003c\/strong\u003e When a strange egg arrives on Earth, the discovery opens into an encounter with beings whose intelligence, beauty, and vulnerability challenge ordinary assumptions about humanity's place in the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePangborn's science fiction often favoured humane feeling over machinery, and \u003cem\u003eAngel's Egg\u003c\/em\u003e is a fine example of that gift. The story blends classic alien-contact science fiction with emotional restraint, ethical tension, and the golden-age sense that the unknown may be intimate as well as cosmic. Rather than turning first contact into spectacle, Pangborn makes it personal: a meeting across species, fear, sympathy, curiosity, and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1951, \u003cem\u003eAngel's Egg\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in \u003cem\u003eGalaxy Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e and is classed by ISFDB as novelette-length short fiction. It remains a strong fit for readers of classic science fiction, first-contact stories, alien intelligence, humane speculative fiction, and mid-century SF that explores not only what humanity might discover, but how humanity might behave when discovery becomes a moral test.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 36\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43426675818563,"sku":"9781515405627","price":13.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/angels-egg-a-positronic-book-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}