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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Baen Books
Publication date
May 1, 2000
Pages
528
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780671578664
ISBN-10
0671578669
Dimensions
1 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$6.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Human civilization is threatened when a 'protoplanet' the size of Earth separates from Jupiter and begins a doomsday journey toward the sun. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "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....
Editions
Hardcover
from Baen Books (June 1, 1999)
9780671578138 | details & prices | 421 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Tired of having innovation stifled by cost-cutting bureaucrats, engineer Landen Keene dreams of emigrating to the Kronian colony among the moons of Saturn, until a gigantic protoplanet hurtling toward the sun threatens to obliterate Earth
About: Tired of having innovation stifled by cost-cutting bureaucrats, engineer Landen Keene dreams of emigrating to the Kronian colony among the moons of Saturn, until a gigantic protoplanet hurtling toward the sun threatens to obliterate Earth
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Baen Books (May 1, 2000)
9780671578664 | details & prices | 528 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $6.99
About: Tired of cost-cutting bureaucrats, engineer Landen Keene dreams of emigrating to the Kronian colony among the moons of Saturn, until a gigantic protoplanet hurtling toward the sun threatens to obliterate Earth.
About: Tired of cost-cutting bureaucrats, engineer Landen Keene dreams of emigrating to the Kronian colony among the moons of Saturn, until a gigantic protoplanet hurtling toward the sun threatens to obliterate Earth.
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