| Title: | Cradle of Saturn |
| Authors: | James P. Hogan |
| Material Type: | novel |
| Publisher: | [S.l.] : BAEN, 1999 |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-0-671-57866-4 |
| Size: | 18 cm |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Subjects: | Science fiction |
| Description: |
Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name of Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims -that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, and as recently as a few thousand years ago- flies in the face of the reigning dogma, and is under attack by the scientific establishment. Then the planet Jupiter emits a white-hot protoplanet as large as the Earth, which is hurtling sunwards like a gigantic comet that will obliterate civilization... |
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