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The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding--all within the margins of a book conceived by <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.<br><br>The book: <i>Ship of Theseus,</i> the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.<br><br>The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.<br><br>The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.<br><br><i>S.</i> contains 22 inserts and will be delivered in a sealed slipcase.