Review: Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet

Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet by Ben Bova
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet was a good read, but I had to keep putting it down and coming back to it because it was a bit drawn out without much going on at some points. While I love Bova's work, and consider him to be one of the great Science Fiction Authors, I considered the book to be a little lackluster considering the possibilities of the plot.

The novel presents a great social experiment, a human colony of 10,000 people who will be living in a massive ship in orbit of Saturn. The major religious organization on Earth plans to take over the colony, via carefully planted people, who will save these secularists and scientists from themselves and bring them into the fold of the church proper with the help of a charismatic ex-con.

If you're a fan of Bova, you'll enjoy this book, but it is somewhat long winded.

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