{"product_id":"entirethependingworld","title":"Entire The Pending World collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery place has a past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Pending World, the past does not always understand that it is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA disconnected fax machine at an abandoned Texas collider begins transmitting results from experiments that were never completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Pennsylvania house coughs when the demolition crew breaks through its porch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dead man’s unserved sentence reactivates more than a century after his burial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dead in Lily Dale begin borrowing the living to finish what they left undone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver San Francisco, an enormous metal disc arrives during an hour nobody remembers, and half the city falls beneath its shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not interchangeable haunted places. Every disturbance grows\u003cbr\u003efrom the history, geography and private arrangements of the place\u003cbr\u003ewhere it occurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe London Bridge in Arizona brings something else from London with\u003cbr\u003eit: the Great Stink of 1858.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA condemned St. Louis tower falls twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vanished towns beneath the Quabbin Reservoir begin requiring residents again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Monowi, Nebraska, a town with one remaining citizen recalls everyone who ever left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in Tennessee, a television station begins showing each viewer what that person truly worships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross seven regional collections, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Pending World\u003c\/strong\u003e travels through New England, the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic, Appalachia, the Midwest, the South, Texas and the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach story begins with an impossible event. What follows is an investigation, not only into what is happening, but into what the town buried, abandoned, renamed or agreed not to discuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes an hour is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes a second crime scene appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes the Office of Consequence arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts presence does not mean the situation is under control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe people at the center of these stories are demolition engineers, county clerks, archivists, ferry operators, tour guides, divers, broadcasters and other local experts who understand one small part of the world extremely well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen that part stops obeying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey still have to determine what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey still have to decide what happens next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the world usually collects something for the answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach book stands alone and may be read in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/collections\/thependingworld\" title=\"The Pending World collection\"\u003eSee all seven The Pending World books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54076784345272,"sku":null,"price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/TPW_all_7_ebooks_1500x1200T.png?v=1789239032","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/entirethependingworld","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}