{"product_id":"van-rijn-method","title":"Van Rijn Method","description":"When the human race spread out among the stars, they took the profit motive\nwith them, and none exemplified that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn,\ninterstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire. He might look like Falstaff\nand talk in a steady stream of malapropisms, but anybody who might take him for\na bumbling buffoon would quickly find themselves taken—to the cleaners! In\nNick Van Rijn, Poul Anderson created one of the most memorable and popular\ncharacters in science fiction, and now, for the first time, all the stories of\nVan Rijn and the Polesotechnic League will be published in chronological order\nin three volumes. This first volume includes the classic novel, The Man Who\nCounts, in which Van Rijn and two associates are stranded on a planet inhabited\nby a winged race, two factions of which happen to be at war with each other. The\nplanet has no food that is not poisonous to humans, and the three humans have\nonly a small supply of food in their wrecked ship. Somehow the humans must get\nto another continent, where a human outpost is, before they starve, in spite of\nthe planet’s inhabitants being too busy fighting a war to bother with the\ntroubles of these three odd-looking wingless aliens. An impossible problem? Not\nfor Nick Van Rijn. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250896523608,"sku":"9781416555698","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781416555698_8745ae6c-08f5-485c-9f8c-21cbc4bcde63.jpg?v=1749834910","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/van-rijn-method","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}