Saturn Run

496 pages

Published Oct. 5, 2015 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

ISBN:
978-0-399-17695-1
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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 …

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Liked the Martian? Read this. Very hard sci-fi set shortly into the future (2060s). Even explains the technology at the end (don't read until finish) and the one thing that might be considered technobabble. Gripping storyline and was a joy to read.

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