Saturn Run
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Average rating3.9
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Ratings24
Average rating3.9
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.
A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out.
The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense.
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[b:Saturn Run 24611668 Saturn Run John Sandford https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1429666760s/24611668.jpg 44222814] is hard science fiction – the good kind of hard science fiction with lots of geeky real science and real tech. It also tells a suspenseful and exciting story.An intern at Caltech was doing some routine image work to recalibrate a newly repaired space telescope when he spotted an anomaly. An object was approaching Saturn and it was decelerating. It could only be a spaceship and it wasn't from Earth. This effectively put the cat among the pigeons. The world's two superpowers, China and the USA, both started crash programs to go to Saturn and investigate. The race was on. It wouldn't be safe and it wouldn't be friendly. Alien tech of immeasurable value was at stake and both governments wanted it for their own.Good book; a high-tech, hard-science thriller filled with interesting characters. A solid four stars.
Takes too long to get going - too many technical details and political space race stuff.
I didn't know what to expect (Mr. Sandford is new to me) but I needn't have worried. The experience was enjoyable from beginning to end. It had: a race to Saturn with competing technologies, technology adequately explained (but not over-explained), aliens, political plotting and counter-plotting, believable persona (on both sides of the equation) and a wonderful twist at the end. I understand this is John Sandford's first “science fiction” book; I would encourage him to write more! The Sol system is a big place...
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