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| View Larger Image | Titan (Gaea) | Paperbackby John Varley (Author)
| List Price: | $7.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Ace | | Page Count: | 320 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 15, 1987 | | Sales Rank: | 120,245th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780441813049
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
John Varley's monumental Gaean trilogy--repackaged. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 61 reviews)
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Hot Fire by Beezy (Winston-Salem, NC)  5 Stars
September 20, 2009
This was a really good book. The hero goes though trials and tribulations, you couldn't even imagine. And then afterwards, they are thrown more trials. It's really robust with a lot going on. If you do intend to read this one, you should get the other two because they complete each other to make for a wonderfully epic journey.
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Fanciful fantasy, not Sci Fi by Deb Ryan (Bellingham, MA United States)  2 Stars
June 18, 2009
Have to agree with other the other critical reviewers...very disappointed. Read this after strong recommendation from fellow Dune fan to whom I recommended the Hyperion/Endymion series. This is pretty silly, unsatisfying stuff. If you like explorations through exotic alien landscapes with cartoonish creatures like living dirigibles and 6-legged kangaroos where not much happens, then read on. The characters are flat, there is very little dramatic tension or suspense, or even a plot, and the writing is mundane. Won't bother to read the rest of the series.
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Everything I expected by Wm Archibald Mccarty  4 Stars
April 06, 2009
This was one of my fave books in college. My college age son is now reading some of the literature that informed my youth. "TITAN" is as good as I remembered it and now it's captured another generation's attention. Oh, yeah, and the book came promptly and in very good condition. thanks!
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TITAN, wildly imaginative SF saga by McGrandpa (Texas, USA) 5 Stars
February 28, 2009
TITAN is the first book of the Gaea Trilogy, and a glorious introduction to Gaea and all her creations. Varley gets to the meat of the story quickly and captivatingly. Set in the near future, Earths astronomers discover something odd orbiting Saturn, and send a manned mission to investigate. They find a large wheel, obviously an artifact, of completely unknown origin. The Mission Commander orders Ringmaster into orbit near the rim of the wheel. Then the fun begins! Their adventures blossom into a saga of epic scale. You will meet some of the most fascinating creatures imaginable.
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Huge disappointment by Acontius (Florida) 2 Stars
November 29, 2008
I was a sf fanatic for most of my life, and when TITAN came out, I felt kind of guilty for not reading it immediately. I just couldn't get past the pictures of centaurs and blimps with eyes. But having read so much other "landmark" sf over the years, I finally decided to give TITAN a fair reading.
Though the narrative caught me up at first, I started to have some misgivings with the childishly "sophisticated" discussions of shipboard sexual musical-chairs.
The misgivings became pure boredom as I realized that TITAN is simply a sort of Dr. Seuss story for adults--but without the pleasant word play. Basically, the author creates a fantasy world and then has nearly flat characters wander through it and gape.
To avoid the dead-end of most transported-to-a-fantasy-land fiction, a little bit of interaction with the outside world is tossed in. Of course this also paves the way for the sequels, which I won't read.
This is not true science fiction, but, by 2008 standards, largely formulaic fantasy wrapped with a light gauze of scientific sounding jargon.
As for character development, if it had been here, the book might have been more bearable. I sure didn't enjoy the company of these fellow travelers.
I wish I had gotten reading this out of the way 30 years ago when it was first published so I wouldn't have been so disappointed to find what rates as a classic.
PS Any comparison to DUNE (as on the back cover) is pure fantasy and an insult to Frank Herbert!
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| The John Varley Reader
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From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade, and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.
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