- Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm) (January 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671655469
- ISBN-13: 978-0671655464
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,823,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: Saturnalia (Paperback)
Saturn Alia by Grant CallinProfessor Kurious Whitedimple was an unassuming teacher of archaelology at Space-Home University. Possessor of a boring life and a boring future. Junior Badille was a 20-year-old wrinkled gnome with an improbably high IQ. Living with his parents in an isolated research station orbiting Saturn at 3.5 million kilo-meters. Possessor of a lonely life and a short future. Teh odds of these two meeting, sharing high adventure, and forming a lasting friends were astronomical - on the same order, for instance, as the accidental artifcat on the surface of Iapetus...
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5.0 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews) 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This is an incredible book, similar to Heinlein.,
By Geoff Canyon (gcanyon@inspiredlogic.com) - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Saturnalia (Paperback)
This is one of the best SF books I've ever read. I just finished reading it for the third time, and it got me again with its great characters and gripping plot. The transformation of Dr. Kurious Whitedimple from mild-mannered professor of Archeology to hairy-chested space hero is gradual and highly enjoyable. I don't like the sequel, _A Lion on Tharthee_, quite as well, but it's also a very good book. I wish Grant Callin had been more successful/written more books.
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Great Hard Sci-Fi,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Saturnalia (Paperback)
This book has some great engineering and solar system geography. Mr. Callin's incredible descriptions of Saturn and her moons is breathtakingly rich and intense . The plot is great, the science is magnificent. This book has some of the best spaceflight passages I have read. It's a must have, and I am sorry to see it out of print.
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Classic unknown,
By Michael J. Joyce "joyceman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Saturnalia (Paperback)
The plot of this novel deals with the discovery and subsequent race to recover a series of alien artifacts placed throughout the saturnian system.
The backdrop is the economic and political competition between Earth and a series of orbiting colonial habitats operated by a corporation in the late 21st century. The science is interesting and seems solid enough to a non-tech type like myself. The controlled reactor fusion drive(CRF) that the author posits as mankind's key to solar system travel gets more attention than many of the main characters. The description of Spacehome, the orbiting colonies, is wonderfully detailed and developed. The author's comfort level with subjects such as Saturnian astrography and engineering details is refreshing. All that said, the real beauty of this story is the two main characters, and the friendship between them. Professor Kurious Whitedimple (who always has a joke about his name), the archaeologist who makes the initial discoveries and helps lead the team that recovers the final clues that the aliens have left. Junior Badille (who never loses a bet), the hypergenuis with the ability to design the tools needed to find the the aliens clues and eventually interpret them. The humor and interplay between these two and the rest of the cast of characters is what really takes this into the realm of a great book. Callin does an excellent job of creating characters who grow and who you grow to love. I first picked up this book in high school and have read it about 15 times since. It has a few groaner lines it in, but it remains one of my favorite pieces of fun fiction to this day. A quick note, there is a sequel to this novel titled "A Lion on Tharthee" which deals with the the first contact between Humans and the aliens from this novel. Both of the main characters are reprised in the second novel. |
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