{"product_id":"farmer-in-the-sky-vg-condition","title":"FARMER IN THE SKY. VG+ CONDITION.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarmer In The Sky by Robert Heinlein\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Victor Gollancz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDate of printing 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONDITION - VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGRADING NOTES - Ex-library edition - various Liverpool Library stamps.  Plastic dust jacket has been fitted.  Library card holder on inside front cover. Library record sheet has been removed from first page and price has been pencilled on. Light wear to all edges. Some spotting to top and leading edge of pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISSUE NOTES - Imagine that you and your family are setting off, with many others, on the spaceship Mayflower.  Food has become increasingly scarce on Earth in the 21st century, and you are going to try scientific farming on Ganymede one of Jupiter's moons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is what happens to Bill, and he tells the story of the two months' flight to Ganymede through interstellar space, of hardships that the new colonists have to endure on arrival and how in the end he wins a plot of barren land of his own to cultivate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process of planetary farming is fascinating; soil has to be newly created and even insects must be imported from Earth.  Life on Ganymede is hard, but has its compensations - not the least of which is the beauty of Jupiter's many moons - and through trial and error, the soil is made to provide fruitful crops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen comes the Great Disaster.  Can the colonists survive ad stay on Ganymede or should they cut their losses and return again to Earth?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VICTOR GOLLANCZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42062567243991,"sku":"","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/7085\/1416\/products\/IMG_4921_0b0e1654-2774-42f4-a927-930ba19bac64.jpg?v=1637078972","url":"https:\/\/theunrealitystore.co.uk\/products\/farmer-in-the-sky-vg-condition","provider":"The Unreality Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}