Cradle of Saturn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671578664)

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 has 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.
Then 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....

Author: James P. Hogan
ISBN-10: 0671578669
ISBN-13: 9780671578664
Publisher: Baen
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.18w x 0.88d