{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-halo-jones-book-1-3-set","title":"THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES Book 1-3 Set","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresenting comics legend \u003cstrong\u003eAlan Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e and\u003cstrong\u003e Ian Gibson\u003c\/strong\u003e's all-time classic feminist space opera, \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad Of Halo Jones! \u003c\/em\u003eWhen Halo Jones grows bored with her life in The Hoop - a futuristic world where jobs are scarce and excitement nonexistent - she sets out to see the galaxy any way she can.\n\n\u003cem\u003eBook One\u003c\/em\u003e presented the eponymous Halo Jones as a young woman living in a floating ring-shaped conurbation called “The Hoop”, moored off the eastern coast of North America. The initial story took place over one day and followed the teenager’s tragi-comic misadventures on a shopping trip through her home city, ending with the murder of her best friend and the loss of another to a brainwashing (or in this case, -numbing) cult. These tragedies persuade Halo to emigrate from the Earth, accompanied by her sentient robot dog Toby, vowing never to return.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eBook Two\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a girl’s life as a stewardess on a year-long voyage through deep space, where she discovers that her robotic companion has killed her friend out of jealousy. This story also contains a clever prologue, revealing that Halo was destined to become a legendary historical figure, studied by future students and admirers. This explicit foreshadowing of the plot was, of course, copied with little acknowledgment by the American writer-producer J. Michael Straczynski for an episode of the Babylon 5 television show titled “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eBook Three\u003c\/em\u003e of the Ballad is set ten years after the second, where Halo Jones has become a soldier reluctantly fighting in a seemingly pointless interstellar conflict against an insurgent enemy while being courted by a famous general, Luiz Cannibal. This downbeat story-arc ended with a cessation of hostilities, after which the violence-weary character commandeered a spaceship and deserted into unknown space, determined to take charge of her own fate.\n\n\u003cb\u003eOut Of Print. Condition: Fine. \u003c\/b\u003eSoft bumped corners. Book 3 has a larger cover bend on the top corner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59642398867742,"sku":"RB6093","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB6093-ballad-halo-jones-1-3.jpg?v=1784510824","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-ballad-of-halo-jones-book-1-3-set","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}