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    <body><![CDATA[Titan is a nice addition to Ben Bova's Grand Tour of the Solar System series. It stands well on its own and its plot grows out of what came before it. Bova's prose is good but not great and his plot and characters are a bit flat. But as near-future sci-fi it is compelling, barely 90 years into the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25489122">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great Grand Tour book!  It's hard to rate these individually since I think of them as one long continuation.  This one is a direct sequel to Saturn - they could have easily been packaged as one book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[another of the grand tour of the universe series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good solid, hard Science Fiction book on the prospect of an expedition to Titan.<br/><br/>Part of the Grand Tour series and follows up Saturn. To Bova's credit though, you can read this on its own: I did as I've not read either Saturn or anything else in the Grand Tour series and didn't realize ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4904605">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While I think this was a better novel than it's predecessor 'Saturn', Bova has some stronger stories elsewhere. It was a decent book, and I did enjoy it, but some of the sub plots irked me. Most notably the one dealing with the population growth question, and the many references to that mostly women...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12590072">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than ten thousand dissidents and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddards missions is the study of Saturns moon Titan, which offers the possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas. When the exploration vessel Titan Alpha mysteriously fails after reaching the moons surface, long-buried tensions surface among the colonists. Eduoard Urbain, the missions chief scientist, is wracked with despair as he sees his lifes work unravel. Malcolm Eberly, Goddards chief administrator, takes ruthless measures to hold onto power as a rash of suspicious incidents undermine him. Holly Lane, the colonys HR director, must confront the stations leaders to protect the lives of its people. And retired astronaut Manuel Gaeta is forced to risk his life in a last, desperate attempt to salvage the lost probe. With Titan, Ben Bova takes readers to one of the most intriguing destinations in near space: the extraordinary moon of Saturn which made international headlines last year when the Huygens probe sent back remarkable images of its strange landscapes.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[First lines: &quot;It was nearly dawn on Titan. The thick listless wind slithered like an oily beast slowly awakening from a troubled sleep, moaning, lumbering across the frozen land.&quot;<br/><br/>I love goofy science fiction. This one fell flat though - cardboard-cutout characters and lame dial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23547347">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At Mostly Fiction <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mostlyfiction.com/scifi/bova.htm">http://mostlyfiction.com/scifi/bova.htm</a><br/><br/>Author interview at Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-ben-bova.html" title="http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-ben-bova.html">http://sciencefictionmusings.blogspot.co...</a><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great sci-fi book that makes you feel like you are there. I love that there is always drama and a mystery going on too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm officially off Titan. What a slow and agonizing book.]]></body>
    
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