Titan

Stephen Baxter

Apr 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

Signs of 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 struggle to keep the ship and crew functioning.

But it is on the icy surface of Titan itself that the true adventure begins. In the orange methane slush the astronauts will discover the secrets of life’s origins and reach for a human destiny beyond their wildest dreams.

Ratings and reviews

Extremely slow, REALLY bad hard Sci-fi simply because characters shallow and unrealistic. Realism makes good hard SciFi so being unrealistic is a large negative. Very American centric with strong anti any other country over tones. I like the authors other works, sad to see this one.

Halfway through this story I was considering how much therapy I would need if I were to finish it, now I AM finished, and i feel like i've been through that therapy, and the world is a sunnier place somehow. Talk about "from the darkness into the light"! A touch melodramatic, but true enough!

What a surprise! Couldn't stop reading...

About the author

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Northumberland.