{"product_id":"2026200016249-secondhand-the-shores-of-death","title":"The Shores Of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the sun stops rotating and one half of the Earth is plunged into eternal darkness while the other scorches under relentless light, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction — yet one man, Clovis Marca, cannot bring himself to focus on survival when a far more personal obsession consumes him. The Shores of Death is a classic work of British science fiction that chronicles the last days of a dying civilisation through the lens of one man's desperate, almost nihilistic quest for meaning in a world that has already surrendered to fate.\n\nMichael Moorcock, one of the most iconoclastic voices in 20th-century speculative fiction, presents here a novel that transcends the disaster-story genre to argue something far more provocative: that the human drive toward individual passion may be both our greatest flaw and our most defining virtue. Originally serialised in *New Worlds* magazine — the very publication that would reshape British SF during the New Wave movement — this tale illustrates Moorcock's signature blend of philosophical urgency, romantic fatalism, and vivid, almost mythic storytelling. Readers who believe they know how a civilisation ends will find themselves questioning everything once Moorcock is through with them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342774280411,"sku":"2026200016249-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/89a901dd-52c1-4649-9750-49d3f633cbe5.png?v=1790049116","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016249-secondhand-the-shores-of-death","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}