{"product_id":"lives-of-tao-book-wesley-chu-9780606353502","title":"The Lives of Tao","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen out-of-shape IT technician Roen wakes up and starts hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumes he's losing it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe isn't. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs of last night, he has a passenger in his brain--an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Over the millennia his people have trained human heroes to be great leaders, to advance our species at a rate far beyond what it would have achieved on its own. Split into two opposing factions--the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix--the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet.and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that's what it takes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo now Roen must train to be a hero worthy of his unwanted companion. Like that's going to end up well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWesley Chu is my hero. He has to be the coolest science fiction writer in the world. --Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOsama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358458286353,"sku":"CIN060635350XG","price":27.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/060635350X.jpg?v=1750944270","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/lives-of-tao-book-wesley-chu-9780606353502","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}