{"product_id":"zond-transmissions","title":"zond Transmissions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ZOND anthologies were published between 1991 and 1994 featuring stories from a places and times that might have been.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eStories of what nearly happened.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eZOND was the name given to a series of probes sent by the Russian space agency to orbit the moon and return.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eA manned version was to be launched in 1968 which would have beaten NASA to that goal. However for safety and political reasons they sent terrapins instead.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe name seemed appropriate for the collections. All the contributors had an idea of the theme although interpreted it in their own individual ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as work that appeared in the published anthologies. Pages have been included that were to have gone into later, never completed, issues and also some older work which informed what came later.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ZOND anthologies were a testing ground for lots of Ideas and themes and as such make an interesting time piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44337665179809,"sku":"comi942","price":28.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1kvygvje-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1715925121","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/zond-transmissions","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}