{"title":"Planetes","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"planetes-volume-4-book-makoto-yukimura-9781595324672","title":"Planetes Volume 4","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50000272490769,"sku":"CIN1595324674G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323781447953,"sku":"CIN1595324674VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1595324674.jpg?v=1750959019"},{"product_id":"planetes-book-makoto-yukimura-9781591825104","title":"Planetes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50000276029713,"sku":"CIN1591825105G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1591825105.jpg?v=1750992341"},{"product_id":"planetes-book-makoto-yukimura-9781591825098","title":"Planetes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50113972142353,"sku":"CIN1591825091VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50256672719121,"sku":"CIN1591825091G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1591825091.jpg?v=1750829950"},{"product_id":"planetes-deluxe-edition-book-1-book-makoto-yukimura-9781506750149","title":"Planetes Deluxe Edition Book 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first of two deluxe editions collecting the sci-fi classic by manga icon Makoto Yukimura, the creator of \u003ci\u003eVinland Saga\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner - Best Publication Design, 2025 American Manga Awards!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It's the late 21st century. People now live on the Moon and Mars, and for some, space is still an epic adventure, as plans are underway for the first-ever crewed voyage to Jupiter. If the giant planet can be successfully reached and harvested for the helium-3 fuel in its atmosphere, the entire solar system will open up to humanity!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But much of the time, space is an everyday job...and an unglamorous and dangerous one--done by astronauts like Hachimaki \"Hachi\" Hoshino, Fee Carmichael, and Yuri Mikhalkov, as they orbit the Earth in the ramshackle vessel \u003ci\u003eDS-12 Toy Box.\u003c\/i\u003e Their task is helping to clean up the mess human beings have brought along with them into space--over a hundred years of debris circling the world at eight kilometers per second, posing a deadly threat to travelers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hachi, son of a famous pioneer of Mars voyages, dreams of breaking out from his father Goro's shadow by joining the Jupiter mission, but a traumatic brush with death may have used up Hachi's courage to journey further. Fee, no-nonsense pilot of the \u003ci\u003eToy Box\u003c\/i\u003e and working mom, is lauded as a heroine for preventing a terrorist incident in space, but faces an even tougher challenge as an astronaut--finding a place where she can smoke! And Yuri, the ever calm and reliable crewmate on the team, deals with the loss of his wife in a tragic accident while grappling with the true meaning of humanity's place among the stars.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeluxe Edition features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFront and back covers feature debossed patterns with tactile effect. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMetallic copper gilding on page edges.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e7\" x 10\" hardback on high-quality paper.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e44 full-color art pages on special gloss stock.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBook design pays tribute to real astronauts; inspired by elements of the International Space Station.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlanetes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is the ancient Greek word for \"wanderers\"--describing both the planets themselves, and the restless protagonists who dream of reaching those distant worlds against an epic backdrop of family, romance, politics, ambition, and war in creator Makoto Yukimura's saga of the human drama of space exploration!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52495357280529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52495357640977,"sku":"NIN9781506750149","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781506750149.jpg?v=1760018614"},{"product_id":"planetes-deluxe-edition-book-2-book-makoto-yukimura-9781506750156","title":"Planetes Deluxe Edition Book 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom manga icon Makoto Yukimura, the creator of \u003ci\u003eVinland Saga\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It's 2078, and eighteen astronauts represent all humanity on its first voyage to Jupiter. And their humanity is more precious than the treasure they seek.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hachimaki is determined to break free of Earth's gravity well by joining the crew of the fusion-powered \u003ci\u003eVon Braun\u003c\/i\u003e on its epic first crewed journey to Jupiter. If the giant planet can be successfully reached and harvested for the helium-3 fuel in its atmosphere, the entire solar system will open up to humanity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But it isn't only worlds whose paths are made by unseen orbits through time and space...it's people, and Hachimaki must confront the tension of tightening his human bonds to Earth through marriage, even as he seeks the far frontier--just as his old captain, Fee Carmichael, must seek that invisible balance of forces with the past, present, and future generations of her own earthbound family. And if Fee and crewmates Yuri and Tanabe aboard the space junk removal ship \u003ci\u003eToy Box\u003c\/i\u003e can't stop the long-feared Kessler Syndrome as a war in space threatens to spin out of control and fill orbit with an inescapable cloud of debris, humanity may never journey beyond Earth again! \u003ci\u003ePlanetes\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic saga of family, friendship, and passion in a future not far away!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanetes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the ancient Greek word for \"wanderers\"--describing both the planets themselves, and the restless protagonists who dream of reaching those distant worlds against an epic backdrop of family, romance, politics, ambition, and war in creator Makoto Yukimura's saga of the human drama of space exploration!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeluxe Edition features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFront and back covers feature debossed patterns with tactile effect. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMetallic copper gilding on page edges.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e7\" x 10\" hardback on high-quality paper.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e44 full-color art pages on special gloss stock.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBook design pays tribute to real astronauts; inspired by elements of the International Space Station.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52737756332305,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52737756430609,"sku":"NIN9781506750156","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781506750156.jpg?v=1763432134"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/planetes-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}