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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 .
Once it was established that Saturn is a gaseous planet, most works depicting such an environment were instead set on Jupiter. [2] Nevertheless, Saturn remains a popular setting in modern science fiction for several reasons including its atmosphere being abundant with sought-after helium-3 and its magnetosphere not producing as intense radiation as that of Jupiter. [1]
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The Science Fiction Book Club has published omnibus editions in the US that combine two books, without new material. Timelike Diplomacy (2004; combines Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise) On Her Majesty's Occult Service (2007, combines The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue)
The book explores the perils related to the atomic age. In this novel, the Cold War is apparently still on, and at the end of the book one side has nuclear weapons above the earth on an orbital platform. To test its abilities, the Star Child detonates an orbiting warhead at the end of the novel, creating a false dawn below for the people on Earth.
Something Weird Is Going On Inside Saturn We may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn. Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings.
First edition (UK) Titan is a science fiction novel written by Ben Bova as part of the Grand Tour novel series.It directly follows the novel Saturn, in which the space habitat Goddard has finished its two-year journey from Earth, and has settled into the orbit of Saturn.
The section ends with two chapters related to Cameroon and Liz: first, it is revealed that Cameroon has since left Saturn/Plascencia because of his many lies, such as falsifying Rita Hayworth's biography; second, Liz writes a chapter pointing out that the novel is a public discourse and therefore an unfair site for Saturn/Plascencia to take out ...