Cradle of Saturn
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Word Count
105,250 words, Guess
Page Count
421 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL35045M
- ISBN-100671578138
- OCLC Control Number40881516
- OCLC Control Numbercradleofsaturn00hoga
- Library of Congress Control Number99019563
and 2 more
- LibraryThing371355
- Goodreads2474094
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6058.O348 C72 1999
Description
From back cover Baen paperback May 2000: "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 hsa 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. The 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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