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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cradle of Saturndi James P. Hogan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. No, just no. I've enjoyed some of Hogan's books. I assume I read this one years ago and must have liked it, because it survived several purges of my bookshelves. (My books reproduce like tribbles, periodically, that means it's them or me--and I prefer me.) Yet, I couldn't recall a thing about it. Utterly unmemorable. Strike One. Then there's the dedication, which reflects the core premise: "To the work of Immanuel Velikovsky and the untiring efforts of Charles Ginenthal." Did I just not notice this back when I first read this or not know back then Velikovsky was a crackpot? (Ginenthal was a disciple.) Strike Two. I possibly overlooked it for two reasons. First, I'm a space junkie, so something about space colonization and exploration on Saturn is definitely my crack. Second, especially back then as a newly minted libertarian I loved to read anything that reflected back my beliefs--although these days, even if I agree with a message, I hate being preached at--and this time I found that aspect unbearable; this time I couldn't make myself last fifty pages in on reread. Strike Three--it's out of my library. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/0671578669/0671578669.htm nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieCradle of Saturn (1) Premi e riconoscimenti
"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.... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Hogan here takes screwball scientific theories and asks, what if they were actually true? It turns out to be quite fascinating, actually. All that pseudoscience from Velikovsky is just tailor-made for science fiction. This part was really, really nice. ( )