{"product_id":"imperium","title":"Imperium","description":"\u003cb\u003eScience fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure of time travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales as a regular Joe from our Earth fights against an alternate version of himself who has become a tyrant in an alternate timeline.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrust into what he believes is a truck. He's relieved to find his captors very apologetic, and very British--that is, until they began speaking about nations of which Bayard has never heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis captors were from Earth, yes. But not \u003ci\u003ehis\u003c\/i\u003e Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurns out that there are countess parallel Earths, each different, where history has taken every possible turn--and there are even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-time travel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBayard discovers that the Earth \u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e has now been thrust into, the Earth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earth that has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is...a parallel version of Bayard himself! Now Bayard's mission is clear: to prevent his alternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home, the Imperium.","brand":"Baen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378975773029,"sku":"9781451637953","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_5df48000-dee9-41a6-884c-b40b3fd27863.jpg?v=1791142840","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/imperium","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}