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Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. Stross called it "a space opera and late-period [Robert A.] Heinlein tribute", [ 1 ] specifically to Heinlein's 1982 novel Friday .
Saturn's Children may refer to: the children of Saturn (mythology) in Roman myth; Saturn, fearing his children usurping him, ate them at birth; Saturn's Children (Duncan and Hobson book), a 1995 political science book by Alan Duncan and Dominic Hobson; Saturn's Children, a 2008 science fiction novel by Charlie Stross
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house some time between 1820 and 1823. [ 1 ]
Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue is a political science book by Alan Duncan and Dominic Hobson.Its main thesis is that states (in particular, the United Kingdom, on which the book concentrates) expropriate private property, eliminate personal liberties, and undermine the material well-being of the people.
Saturn's Children series. Stross's space opera series, featuring the android society that develops after the extinction of humanity. Stross has referred to the ...
Glasshouse won the 2009 Prometheus Award for Best Novel; Stross was a Best Novel finalist in 2009 for Saturn's Children and has been nominated four other times for Iron Sunrise (in 2005), Accelerando (2006), The Revolution Business (2010) and Annihilation Score (2016). [23] The Apocalypse Codex won the 2013 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. [24]
The setting of Saturn's Children was our solar system. Homo sapiens was extinct, and all the characters were androids.In Neptune's Brood, set in AD 7000, Homo sapiens has been resurrected three times, but remains insignificant and is known as the "Fragile". [4]
The Secret of Saturn's Rings by Donald A. Wollheim; Semper Mars by Ian Douglas; Sentinels From Space by Eric Frank Russell; Serpent's Reach by C. J. Cherryh; Seveneves by Neal Stephenson; Sewer, Gas, and Electric by Matt Ruff; Shade's Children, by Garth Nix; Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg; The Shape of Things to Come, by H. G. Wells