that Planet Has No Right Be There! 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 For Saturn. Operating Without The Hidebound Restrictions Of Bureaucr
Cradle of Saturn
โ Scribed by Hogan, James P.
- Publisher
- Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 1999;2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Edition
- 1st pbk. print
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!"
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 for 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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Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Cradle of Saturn [01]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780671578664
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