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Master storyteller Ben Bova continues his multi-volume "Grand Tour" saga chronicling humanity's exploration of near space with Titan, a fast-paced thriller focused on the first manned mission to the Solar System's most intriguing world. Skillfully blending high drama, passionate characters, and daring speculation with the latest discoveries from the current Cassini/Huygens probe of Saturn's moon, Bova has crafted a heart-stopping tale of epic adventure on mankind's next frontier. The gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around the ringed planet Saturn, carrying a volatile population of more than 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life among the stars. Chief scientist Edouard Urbain's avowed mission is to study the enigmatic moon called Titan, which offers the tantalizing possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas.
But when the exploration vessel Titan Alpha mysteriously fails after reaching the moon's surface, long buried tensions surface among the colonists. Torn by political intrigue, suspicious accidents, and an awesome discovery that could threaten human space exploration, a handful of courageous men and women must fight for the survival of their colony, and the destiny of the human race.
©2006 Ben Bova (P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
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Titan: Winner, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 2006
"The solidly hypothesized science enthralls." (Publishers Weekly)
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1 out of 5 stars
By J. Carpenter on 09-25-07

Great voice tallent wasted on a lame book

The voice talents were exceptional. I've heard them before reading other books and was impressed. However, this book was so awful, even they couldn't save it. It was painful just getting through to the end.

Bova tries to intersperse some political intrigue, so of course the women are pitted against the men in a women's rights issue. Did the "women's issue" have to be "having babies?" Talk about cliche! Bova also expresses his complete lack of understanding about astronauts & mission planning. A pilot who forgets to put on her space suit for a flight? Please!

The characters in this book were all so alike that I couldn't tell who was with whom, or which character was speaking because they all thought the same way. I'd like to say the characters were 2 dimensional, but juvenile is more like it. The robot is the only interesting or stable character in the entire book.

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1 out of 5 stars
By Bill S. on 03-03-09

Not My Cuppa

I like sci-fi, but this was more like Dallas in Space than anything else. I've never read Bova before, but I was expecting more from the futuristic space genre than this. The narration is almost unbearable. Four different readers switching off, mostly depending on who's point-of-view is being expressed. They all "performed" replete with accents that were inconsistent depending on who was reading. The story lost me about 1/4 in but I stayed with it almost until the end when I realized it was time to move on.

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5 out of 5 stars
By Just on 08-18-17

Great book

If you could sum up Titan in three words, what would they be?

Cataclysmic. Titanic. Imaginative.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Not quite.

Any additional comments?

A very good book, much better than Saturn, which this follows immediately. Very imaginative, very scientifically accurate.

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5 out of 5 stars
By ami ami reader on 02-24-16

mesmerising....from start to finish

loved it. loved the last chapter. such fervor and intensity. narrators were great. love Stefan.

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