{"product_id":"9781399641869","title":"Scion : The explosive new sci-fi thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Murderbot Diaries","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Islington, James \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 September 2026 by Orion Publishing Co (Gollancz) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e162 x 243 x 24 | 434g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ridiculously fast paced and fun: mangatastic-action with heart and soul' DAILY MAIL'A brilliant page turner by my new auto-buy author' ADALYN GRACE'A high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride . . . I devoured it' FONDA LEE'Full of fierce energy and razor-sharp writing' JEREMY SZAL'Like a quest straight out of Cyberpunk 2077' LINDEN LEWIS'Grips you from the first sentence to the last' T. L. HUCHUScion introduces #1 New York Times bestseller James Islington's first ever sci-fi novel in an unmissable new series filled with deadly assassins, dark humour, and world-changing technology - perfect for fans of  Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Murderbot Diaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKILL OR DIE . . . WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?My job, when you think about it, isn't so different from a lot of people's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the 'killing people' part of it, I guess, but that's a them problem: it's been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever - limited resources be damned - there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.  So, sure, I have to deal with a tonne of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I'm really only clocking in to try and crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone's got to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it.  Still. This next job . . . I don't know. It's something I haven't had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way.  I'm sure it'll all go totally fine though. In a world where the rich live forever and the poor die young, Azure is an assassin trained to kill the richest of them all - until he's hired to protect one of them instead. The question is: when you're drowning in debt, how far is too far? Fusing the dystopian morality of cyberpunk with the explosive action of anime, Scion is a fever dream you can binge in one sitting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53662074044752,"sku":"9781399641869","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781399641869.jpg?v=1789815747","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781399641869","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}