Saturn A Novel Of The Ringed Planet

n novels like the bestsellers Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova has been dramatizing the latest discoveries about our own solar system, and telling the epic tale of our own near-future exploration and development. Now Bova turns his attention to one of our system's greatest mysteries. Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to take it. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible dissidents to join a great ark, a one-way expedition twice Jupiter's distance from the Sun, to Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and fascinated astronomers ever since. But humans will be human, on Earth or in the heavens-so amidst the idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting their moment. And hidden from them is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition, known to only a few . . .Bova, Ben is the author of 'Saturn A Novel Of The Ringed Planet', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312872182 and ISBN 0312872186.