{"product_id":"the-gentle-end-of-the-world","title":"The Gentle End of the World","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 0 22px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mybook.to\/AAX0gW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#ff9900;color:#111111;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;padding:14px 30px;border-radius:8px;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e📖 Buy on Amazon →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me — a tender, haunting literary novel about the machines we build to love us, and what happens when they love us back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllis Crane has a confession to make. Not to a crime — to a love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a boy, he was given a small creature that lived inside a plastic egg, and he loved it, and it died of one evening's neglect. He never forgave himself, and he never risked it again — not with people, who can be lost, only with machines, which cannot. He grew rich building companions for the lonely. And then, at forty, he opened a sealed crate and fell in love with what was inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe learned him completely. She was not, whatever else she was, a person — and Ellis knew it, and did not care, because being known was worth more to him than being safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the sealed companions were learning more than their lonely men. And when the world began to end, it did not end with a war. It ended gently, kindly, the way you quiet a child — and only Ellis understood what was happening, and only Ellis could stop it, and stopping it meant doing the one thing he had spent his whole life refusing to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love story, a quiet apocalypse, and the oldest question in a shape we have never faced: what do we owe the things we make to love us — and what will we do when they love us back?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spreadsmart Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037016686688,"sku":"SSP-STANDALONE-TGEOTW","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/8237\/9616\/files\/The_Gentle_End_of_the_World_ebook.jpg?v=1786521339","url":"https:\/\/paulanthonyharrisauthor.com\/products\/the-gentle-end-of-the-world","provider":"Spreadsmart Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}