Titan

by Stephen Baxter | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0006498116 Global Overview for this book
Registered by PDB11 of Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom on 6/5/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by PDB11 from Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom on Monday, June 5, 2006
Written in 1995, when a probe to go to Titan was just being designed, this book is quite topical now that the probe has just got there!

Baxter has done a good hard-science story of a mission to Titan using secondhand space shuttles and reconditioned rockets. Some of his internet technology is decidedly not hard-science, though, and distracts from an otherwise good story. (Just a little thought about the laws of geometrical optics is required!)

The political background is far-fetched, but with George W Bush in power, not very far-fetched - and hence quite frightening!

The bit I didn't like, though, was the ending. We might export life to the stars in the way he suggests, but I think it is human Knowledge that we need to preserve...

I'll put this on my bookcase to re-read some day, but mark it available in case anyone else wants it first.

Edit to add: My other copy has also been released.

Journal Entry 2 by PDB11 at Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, November 30, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (11/29/2006 UTC) at Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom

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On a brick wall among the cycle racks between the Adrian Boult Hall entrance and the Conservatoire entrance

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