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"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....
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....
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So there's this big hunk of rock hurtling through space, see? And it just might be on a collision course with earth. Now, the authorities are skeptical at first, mind you. But thanks to evidence amassed by plucky scientists, they eventually relent (although too late to do much about it) and recognize the impending disaster for what it is. Rock meets earth. Earth meets rock. Panic and calamity ensue.
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Forgive him the by-now terribly hackneyed premise, and you'll actually find that the able James P. Hogan has infused this Armageddon scenario du jour with some novel science. The pluckiest of Hogan's plucky scientists are the Kronians, brainy colonists from Saturn's satellites, who try, along with like-minded earthlings, to persuade others that Athena, a white-hot comet ejected from Saturn's core, threatens to cook the earth on a near-miss. And along the way, we get treated to some neat, eye-opening theories, among them that the earth may have orbited Saturn as recently as the Pliocene--with giant humans rubbing shoulders with titanotheres--and that Venus may have been spit out by Jupiter just a few thousand years ago. The workmanlike action in Cradle of Saturn is typical disaster-flick fare (although with more politicking than car chases), but it's these ideas that make the book worthwhile. That, and the fact that at no point does Bruce Willis attempt to blow Athena up. --Paul Hughes
James P. Hogan was the author of the popular Giants hard SF series and of multiple New York Times concept-driven science fiction best-sellers. Hogan died suddenly in 2010.
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