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Titan (NASA Trilogy #2)

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Humankind's greatest--and last--adventure!

Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASA's Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a "slingshot" transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a constant stru...more

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May 27, 2012 Mikael Kuoppala rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Stephen Baxter's "Titan" is all about good ol' NASA space exploration and politics.

Everything starts in the year 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe detects indications of life on Titan. However, due to the anti-science atmosphere of USA's concervative and closed-minded politics, it is up to a couple of NASA's most brilliant minds to launch a low-cost mission to Titan for further investigation. In lead of those science enthusiasts is Paula Benacerraf, a middle aged NASA technician, astronaut and a g...more Stephen Baxter's "Titan" is all about good ol' NASA space exploration and politics.

Everything starts in the year 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe detects indications of life on Titan. However, due to the anti-science atmosphere of USA's concervative and closed-minded politics, it is up to a couple of NASA's most brilliant minds to launch a low-cost mission to Titan for further investigation. In lead of those science enthusiasts is Paula Benacerraf, a middle aged NASA technician, astronaut and a grandmother of two boys.

After a long political struggle a cheap space vessel build from age old Apollo modules ascends from the surface of the Earth with a crew of five, with Paula Benacerraf as the mission supervisor. After that the novel is divided into two storylines and starts describing the mission to Titan while also concentrating on the deteriorating political situation on Earth.

The book is filled with minor characters that don't often contribute enough (or at all...) to the story. Only Benacerraf, who's a minor main character, gets properly developed as the character building aspects are left at minimal, hence rendering all the other chracters flat and two dimencional.

Stephen Baxter's writing is barren and uninspired, at most times devoid of color and nuances. It's also overly descriptive and not too economic, giving the novel a strong sence of it being overwritten.

There are also big problems with the construction and the pacing of the surprisingly plotless story. The novel is filled with long, uneventfull scenes and it relies on impropable events that arise out of nowhere, wich renders the credibility of the story under question. And on top of that, the book is filled with pointless subplots that don't contribute to the story as a whole. Even more irritatingly a lot of questions are left unanswered as the sublots are left unfinished as if due to incompetent editing.

And it doesn't help one bit that the ending of the book is simply not baliavable and diminishes the credibility of the novel to a point where it seems to be only a waste of time.

Nevertheless, at times the book conveyed a true sence of childlike wonder and scienticic and intellectual intrigue. But it could have used more beliavability and substance. A lot more.(less)

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Nov 30, 2011 Eric Means rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: hard-sf, sci-fi

I read Stephen Baxter's short story Last Contact a few years ago on an acquaintance's suggestion and found it to be three things: scientifically interesting, well written, and the most depressing short story I'd ever read.

Titan follows in a similar mold: the science generally seems realistic (and he obviously did a lot of research into the US space program), the story is engaging and interesting (in fact, having reached the last ~80 pages I could not put the book down until I had finished it; it...more

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Jan 12, 2011 Lis Carey rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is the story of a manned trip to Titan in the early years of the 21st century, from the same writer that gave us the somewhat depressing, but grippingly realistic and compelling Voyage.

Where shall I start? With the bioengineered anthrax that only attacks Han Chinese? With the ammonia-based beings who manage to revive Our Heroes four billion years after their deaths, with their memories intact?

No.

I'll start with a U.S. Air Force pilot, acting on orders of an Air Force general, attempting to...more This is the story of a manned trip to Titan in the early years of the 21st century, from the same writer that gave us the somewhat depressing, but grippingly realistic and compelling Voyage.

Where shall I start? With the bioengineered anthrax that only attacks Han Chinese? With the ammonia-based beings who manage to revive Our Heroes four billion years after their deaths, with their memories intact?

No.

I'll start with a U.S. Air Force pilot, acting on orders of an Air Force general, attempting to shoot down Endeavor as it takes Our Heroes into orbit to board Discovery and begin the trip to Titan. Not only is nobody court-martialed for this; the effect is to sour the sheeplike public's brief enthusiasm for NASA. It produces no bad effects for the Air Force whatsoever, and only minimally impedes the career of the pilot involved.

There's an impressively lifeless caricature of a right-wing, militaristic, super-patriot politician, whose election we're supposed to believe was inevitable nearly four years out. (When, exactly, was the last time that the "obvious front-runner" immediately after one presidential election was even his party's nominee in the next election? When was the last time one of these "obvious front-runners" was elected in the following election?) He is not given any attractive features whatsoever, and all the characters, both for and against him, treat him like a force of nature. Everyone seems to be terrified of him; no one seems to consider simply voting against him. No other candidates are so much as mentioned. Not even the possibility of other candidates is mentioned.

One character, Jake Hadamard, makes casual reference to "the extension of the Communications Decency Act", which completely shut down the internet until, somewhat later in the book, it is reopened under extremely tight censorship. The shutdown and censored reopening of the net is significant for the background of the book, and it's treated explicitly as an extension of currently-existing law. Now, it might be unfair to expect Baxter to have incorporated the fact of the Supreme Court's June 1997 decision striking down the CDA [his afterword is dated January 1997], but the lower court decision against it was in 1996. Still cutting things unfairly close? Not fair to expect him to incorporate 1996 material in a book turned in no later than January 1997? Well, remember, we're talking about the Communications Decency Act of 1996. It only required minimal attention to what was going on in the country he was writing about to note that the CDA was in trouble almost immediately upon passage and unlikely to survive, and only a few lines needed to be rewritten to attribute the post-2000 shutdown of the internet to some post-1996 law.

The right-wing caricature referred to above, Xavier MacLachlan, gets elected on schedule in 2008. He's a super-patriot, as mentioned above. One of his earliest actions, one year after the launch of the Titan mission [which can't get back on its own; it has to wait for pick-up], is to shut down not only the retrieval mission plans, but also the unmanned resupply launches. This is a popular decision because, of course, Americans are now bored with the Titan mission. Can I have a show of hands on who thinks either the decision or the popular reception of it is plausible? Remember, we're talking about deliberately abandoning five American astronauts in deep space, while they're still transmitting both sound and pictures.

Even though MacLachlan was so popular that his election was inevitable, almost immediately after he takes office parts of the US start seceding. There are some border skirmishes, but no real effort to prevent the secessions. MacLachlan and crew are far too busy, building up the US military in order to confront America's enemies, the Red Chinese, to waste time on secessionists...Uh-huh. Right.

It's not that MacLachlan is a bad guy. It's not that he's a right-wing bad guy. It's not that he's a stupid right-wing bad guy. If that were well done, I'd enjoy it. It's that he's stupid about everything, in wildly implausible ways. It's that he does the stupid or evil thing even when blindly following the hard-right ideology that he is supposed to be completely devoted to would lead him to do something at least different, and probably much smarter. Hard-right ideologues, having gained control of Washington, are not going to be happily indifferent to various pieces of the USA deciding to secede. That's a potential left-wing idiocy, not a right-wing one. MacLachlan's xenophobia is one of his plausible right-wing idiocies; this indifference to secession isn't. It's as if Baxter knows nothing about American politics except that the American political right is Bad Bad Bad. And yet this is not the impression I had after reading Voyage, where the politics seemed depressingly realistic. It's as if Baxter forgot everything that he knew then, and tried to fill the gap by reading the British tabloids' accounts of American politics and popular culture.

In 2012, the Chinese decide that the USA is no longer a major threat, and they attack Taiwan. The US responds (in fact, the secession-fragmented former USA makes a unified, fully integrated military response), there's a war, the Americans are sneakier than the Chinese and have better technology; the Americans win. I had the nagging feeling all through this that something was missing. I finally pinned it down. Japan. The Chinese invade a large offshore island that they claim is historically theres, and no one even mentions the possibility that the Japanese might perhaps express an opinion on the matter. Japan is completely irrelevant to this confrontation. Sure thing.

It seems almost petty to complain about the Chinese being dumb enough to pull the stunt with the asteroid, or to miscalculate and use one that's too big, or to not notice the danger of miscalculating the trajectory. I'm certain it's petty to complain about a portrait of Generation X that identifies as one of its more productive members a young man who produces "art" by gnawing dried shit with his teeth. It would be petty beyond belief to point out that we're told that this is his only skill immediately after he's produced an excellent dinner for eight. Only the small-minded would deign to notice that the noble ammonia-beings of Titan, who decide as their world is about to be destroyed by the still-expanding sun to seed the planets of other stars with both Earth life and Titan life--unlike ignoble humans, who just destroyed everything--almost certainly got the idea from the last two survivors of the Titan mission, who deliberately seeded a water-ice lake with all the organic material from Earth that they had.

I could go on much longer, but why bother? Ignore this one, and hope that Baxter gets back to writing far-future stories.(less)

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Jun 23, 2012 Marin rated it 2 of 5 stars

While I was familiar with Baxter's super-realistic, mostly-science-with-a-hint-of-fiction style of writing before, this novel has struck me with its dirty, no-shiny-paper-wrapping naturalism.

It has basically enough technical details about rockets, life support systems and such, to even be called a pop-science book (enough even to bore a techno-geek such as myself!). But even though it shows the ruff reality of spaceflight, it still keeps the reader dreaming about space exploration.

What I also en...more

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May 08, 2012 Brent Werness rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, hard-sci-fi, sci-fi

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I expected this book to be much more like "Voyage" (the first book in Baxter's NASA series) however it was quite different. The first book was, in my opinion, a very accurate rendition of an alternate history where NASA goes to Mars rather than build the space shuttle, this book was more of a caricature of a possible future for NASA viewed from 1997. I still enjoyed it, but I found a lot of it just too far fetched to really work well as a story.

First, I want to start out with a comment that no o...more I expected this book to be much more like "Voyage" (the first book in Baxter's NASA series) however it was quite different. The first book was, in my opinion, a very accurate rendition of an alternate history where NASA goes to Mars rather than build the space shuttle, this book was more of a caricature of a possible future for NASA viewed from 1997. I still enjoyed it, but I found a lot of it just too far fetched to really work well as a story.

First, I want to start out with a comment that no one else seems to have made about this book. It starts with a shuttle disaster involving Columbia in 2004 (whereas in the real world the Columbia disaster took place in 2003) that results in the grounding of the shuttle fleet. This part actually happened!

Now, on to critiques. The main problem I have with this story is that them bringing all the old equipment out of retirement doesn't actually make any sense. Refurbishing the Saturn V that sat outside in the elements in from of KSC for decades? Modified Apollo capsules for entry into Titan's atmosphere? Then to top it all off, when the military wants to shoot down their launch (for reasons I never fully understood) they do so by refurbishing the X-15 and equipping it with a mothballed anti-satellite missile and then having the entire thing piloted by a retired test pilot from the original flights in the 1960s? None of it made any sense. It was supposed to read as a statement about the backwards motion we've made in aerospace tech (only the X-15 was fast enough to catch up to the shuttle during launch!) but it just came off as silly and unbelievable.

My second issue was with the politics. While I again find it slightly eerie how well he predicted the rise of anti-intellectualism in the US, the degree was again far out of proportion. In his version science in the US is essentially destroyed by when a new (Texan) president rises to power and institutes laws requiring, for example, that all schools teach Aristotelean physics and that the planets circle the earth on crystal spheres. Again it came off as just silly.

As I said in the introduction, I took this book as a caricature (as I believe was intended) of the future as seen from 1997, and as a caricature it is in many ways eerily accurate. However, for me the mix of very hard sci-fi (with all the info dumps on life support systems, low-energy trajectories, and Titan weather patterns that come with that territory) with this near-cartoon politics and mission planning just didn't work all that well. It was a little like if Wile E. Coyote strapped his ACME rocket to his back to catch the roadrunner and then proceeded to give you a 20 minute lecture on the delta-V requirements required to reach the roadrunner who had positioned himself at the Earth-Moon L2 point. It just doesn't work for me.

However, when all is said and done, I still had fun reading it even though it was a bit of a concept fail for me. If you are thinking about reading this, read "Voyage" first.

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Nov 26, 2012 Paul McFadyen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Serious. Very serious. As plausible a book I've read about near-future space exploration, with a decent stab at second-guessing our species' behaviour on THIS planet over the next few years.

Whilst it's ultimately positive about mankind's ability to adapt to and occupy different environments (trying not to throw in any obvious spoilers here), it definitely takes some prety blooming bleak routes to get there - this is not a book i'd recommend to anyone suffering any kind of existential crisis.

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Mar 26, 2011 Andreas rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Initially I thought this book was going to be rather upbeat, but the mood goes on a downward spiral towards the end. Humanity loses interest in space exploration completely. In fact the only thing to still progress is the search for shallow consumer happiness. NASA decides to go for one last hurrah and sends a one way expedition to Titan. As the years pass during the voyage, the small crew gets increasingly on each others nerves while listening from afar as humanity fades away to oblivion back o...more

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Dec 09, 2011 Devon rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fiction, space-stl

Flying to Saturn on chemical rockets...technically possible if you can find a crew willing to sit in a cramped cabin for 6 years or so, and Baxter does a good job of explaining just how it would get done. But even Baxter can't make it believable that we would actually go do it.

The single-election-cycle takeover of American society by a Taliban-esque religious right is lame. It's one-dimensional, lazy, ignorant and unbelievable. He gets important details of American government factually wrong, an...more

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Sep 07, 2007 Peter Pier rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anybody interested in the future of life

Shelves: sf

It´s... strange.
You´ll have to read first. But it has something to learn from- and it teaches. About the endurance of life. Simply read.

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Mar 02, 2009 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf-f

I desperately want to give this book five stars: it has detailed accounts of how a manned trip to Saturn might take place in the present day, and how life on Titan might actually work day to day. All of this is done in a very readable format. However, there are some huge problems countering these.

1) The plan is to go to Titan and essentially set up a human colony there. So they send five people in a small rocket on a trip of several years. Obviously such a small space would send everyone on boar...more

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May 12, 2012 Joe rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not quite sure what to say about this book...part of me enjoyed it - it included the hard technology that I enjoy reading (talking about how current technology can be used to support a manned mission to Titan), but the overall tone of the book was very negative and downbeat - and, then (without any spoilers), the ending was "way out there..."

The book did feel too long...but, I think that was a result of the incredibly detailed technical aspects...and, some of the later medical issues were de...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Luke rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Great critique of the modern space program, as well as the modern attitude (politcal and intellectual) towards the hard sciences and engineering. So great that it really opens your eyes on certain things that Baxter argues are happening in this world right now.

Great concept, great story. Definitely a much broader epic than I was initially expecting when I picked this book up. However, the ending was a little strange and the book in its entirety seemed to drag at times. Great read though, defini...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Peter Greenwell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Apr 22, 2009 Nicolas rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: noir, near-space, hard-science, voyage, rayon-fantasy-et-sf

Il y a certains bouquins qui sont incroyablement faciles à résumer. Titan est de ceux-là. Il s’agit en effet simplement du compte-rendu de l’expédition d’une navette vers Titan, le sattelite de Jupiter.
On est là dans la grande tradition de la SF à tendance réaliste et scientifique, puisque l’auteur, qui est lui scientifique, connaît très bien la NASA et les arcanes de la politique qui s’y pratique. Ce qui donne du reste une bonne part de sa force et de sa pertinence à ce roman. Mais plus encore...more Il y a certains bouquins qui sont incroyablement faciles à résumer. Titan est de ceux-là. Il s’agit en effet simplement du compte-rendu de l’expédition d’une navette vers Titan, le sattelite de Jupiter.
On est là dans la grande tradition de la SF à tendance réaliste et scientifique, puisque l’auteur, qui est lui scientifique, connaît très bien la NASA et les arcanes de la politique qui s’y pratique. Ce qui donne du reste une bonne part de sa force et de sa pertinence à ce roman. Mais plus encore que la politique de la NASA, c’est la technique du vol spatial qui donne à ce récit toute sa force.
En effet, l’auteur arrive imaginer, avec un luxe de détail inimaginable pour nous autres simples lecteurs, les outils et les moyens permettant à cette expédition de se monter, et, surtout, aux astronautes qui la composent de survivre (pour autant que ce soit possible) au voyage et à l’atmosphère de Titan qui, rappelons-le, du fait de la température de surface nettement inférieure à zéro, est composée de méthane et d’ammoniaque.
Bien sûr, ce roman n’est pas exempt de tares, dues d’une part au genre, mais aussi et surtout au désir de l’auteur de dénoncer certains aspects politiques de l’exploration spatiale actuelle. On ne peut donc que regretter toutes ces phases de négociation budgétaire qui n’apportent pas grand chose au récit, à part peut-être un ancrage dans les rouages budgétaires de cette administration, ancrage qu’on découvrait du reste déjà (à moins que je ne sois dans le mauvais ordre temporel) dans Poussière de Lune, avec également toute la gestion administrative de l’espace.
D’autres défauts sont également agaçants, sans être gênants, au premier lieu desquels le style littéraire, aussi léger qu’un rapport de la susnommée NASA. Mais on ne peut pas lire de la hard-science écrite par un scientifique sans en payer le prix, identique à ce qu’on paye dans un Benford. Enfin, le dernier défaut, qui, là, est vraiment de l’ordre du goût personnel. Ce roman se divise en plusieurs parties : la genèse de l’expédition, le voyage, la vie sur Titan et une dernière partie dispensable à tous points de vue : pas très bien écrite, apportant une touche d’optimisme dans un roman qui est sinon singulier par son pessimisme, sortant alors une nouvelle race pour le plus grand mépris d’un lecteur qui était, jusqu’alors, fasciné par le réalisme total de cette histoire.
Malgré ces défauts, j’ai pourtant un faible pour cette histoire pour des raisons au moins aussi nombreuses que les défauts déjà mentionnés. Car on y trouve de l’héroïsme et un aspect visionnaire qui, associé au réalisme de l’univers envisagé, font de cette histoire l’une des meilleures sur le thème pourtant rabâché du décollage de l’Homme de la surface de la Terre.(less)

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Feb 13, 2010 Neil Fein rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This dystopian space tale was out of date shortly after it was published, but it's still a good story with an important message - space travel is bigger than short-term interests, and politics will always nuke expensive programs. The Apollo moon landings were a freak, needed to put the commies in their place, so to speak.

In the early 21st century, the dying days of the space program are in sight. The possibility of life is discovered on Titan, one of Saturns moons. A new NASA director gets the...more

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Jul 11, 2009 Lindsay rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: z2009, bookcrossing, sci-fi

The problem with sci-fi books set in the near future is that they can quickly become dated alternal histories and to some extent that was the case with this book.
Aisde from the slight wrongness that this resulted in while reading this book it was interesting with some fascinating ideas. The book felt well researched with realistic technology, although the epilogue didn't quite match with the rest of the book.

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Jan 13, 2010 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the type of fiction that Baxter writes taht I absolutely love. He takes something so close to reality and takes you to a place that you couldn't imagine how you could ever get there. When they finally arrived at Titan and Baxter piles on the difficulties of actually surving on this world it opens up and places you there. Unfortunately like most if not all Baxter novels it ends in a way that while takes the long view also ends up on a note that isn't exactly positive. You get uplifted by...more

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May 10, 2012 Daniel Fehrenbach rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book a long time ago, but parts of it still stick in my mind. Good exploration story that spent as much time on the trials and tribulations of a long journey and a hostile unfamiliar environment as on the wonders of space travel. The ending is a little out of character with the rest of the story, but still worth the read.

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Jun 16, 2009 David rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

yeah very good, i think i am looking for some thing similar to Clarke's RAMA series. Not sure on the ending thou, did make one wonder if their would be a follow on or not, but suppose he didn't want to just finish his characters off after all they had gone through...

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Mar 23, 2013 Lee Stoneman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this a long time ago and seem to remember enjoying it until the last 20 odd pages. I don't know why I was surprised by the ending: if there's a Baxter book that doesn't end with the universe exploding, I haven't read it.

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Apr 02, 2008 Pete rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was teetering between three and four stars on this one. It is an excellent depiction of what it would take to have a manned mission to Titan using modern technology, and the characters and storyline were very real. A few elements put me off though. The storyline back on Earth was a bit much for a story that should have felt more focused on the mission itself. The ending was also a bit contrived, and kind of took away from the book. There was a mildly pessimistic tone to the story that felt rea...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Meor rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Loved the science, but all the political / social commentary in between was shallow and felt juvenile at times. The ending went to a place I didn't expect, which I loved.

My recommendation: Skip the Earth parts, and just read the Space parts.

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Dec 06, 2012 John rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fun and believable read imagining what we could do in space with the resources we already have, especially if we gave up our unreasonable desire for six sigmas of safety.

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Oct 20, 2010 Larry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A decent work by Mr. Baxter, but I had trouble connecting the on- and off-world stories to each other. Both stories could've been good novels on their own, but combining them didn't seem to work for me.

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Feb 24, 2013 Rob Carrara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

simply one of my favorite sc-fi books of all time. the ending is a KICK

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Mar 16, 2012 Patrick Gibson rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

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Nov 30, 2011 Oakhands rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A bit too accurate...?

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Jul 24, 2011 Keith Bell added it · review of another edition

Re-read. Good space story.

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Aug 06, 2008 Colin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: other-sf

A little too much pontification for my taste. The author basically uses this book as a vehicle for an extended anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-military rant.

If you are rabidly anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-military, and you enjoy reading such rants, maybe you will enjoy this. Otherwise, you probably won't.

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