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Title: Cradle Of Saturn by Ben Hogan ISBN: 0671578138 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67
Rating: 5
Summary: How much is science and how much is fiction?
Comment: I'm really sorry that so many who reviewed this book tend to follow the sheep and believe everything they read and hear from the self-proclaimed scientific experts. This book was very good and I found myself wondering...could it be true? Those who pooh-pooh it are convinced that all the current science theories are correct. I remind you...science is generally theory...not fact!
I really enjoyed Hogan's revisit to Murphy's Law and the theories about the existence of dinosaurs, and, of course, the basis of the book...that being the formation of our solar system. The book is not an easy read, but once you get into it it's hard to put down. I consider the best scifi to be those where you ask, how much IS science and how much is fiction?...and at that, Hogan is a master.
For those of you who think you believe all those current scientific theories I mentioned, please read Hogan's "Minds, Machines and Evolution" and "Rockets, Redheads and Revolution." But, don't do so with your eyes and mind closed.
Rating: 2
Summary: SciFi for the New Ager
Comment: Hogan has done serious science fiction in the past. His science was good and his characters even better. Thus, its a disappointment to read "Cradel of Saturn." It could have been written by one of my Pyramid hugging, Astrologer friends.
The characters are out of central casting, and have no depth. The theme is typical New Agey. Ie. Traditional scientists are naughty and unimaginative, but those willing to think imaginatively are right. The plot is predictable, and the ending clumsy and unbelieveable.
Hogan has ignored so many basic scientific laws that it would be a waste of time to recount them. This is not that important a book.
Every author has a bad book in him. This is Hogan's. I read it to the finish, but would not recommend it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bizarre non-science Fiction
Comment: I bought this book in an airport bookstore between connecting flights. I had not read about the book but generally have liked Hogan's works since he is a good writer and has enough science to create some interesting fiction. The book was tremedously disappointing. The idea that Earth was one of Saturn's moons until as recently as the Jurassic Era and was then blown somehow to its present orbit just makes no sense. Even if you bought the argument that warmth radiated from Saturn was enough to get life started on satellite Earth as it orbited Saturn, what sustained life during what would have been tens if not hundred's of years of interplanetary drifting by the orphaned Earth until it settled into its present orbit? The idea that Jupiter somehow ejected what became Venus from its own mass in the past 10,000 years is equally preposterous. The energy to hurle the mass of Venus out of Jupiter's gravity well would be astronomical. Hogan's superficial reference to Jupiter's known role as a protostar at during the formation of the solar system is really hoaky. Enjoyable SF requires some suspension of belief. This book requires suspension of intelligence.
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Title: The Legend That Was Earth by James Hogan ISBN: 0671318403 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Paths to Otherwhere by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0671877674 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Outward Bound by James P. Hogan, James Patrick Hogan ISBN: 0812571916 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Martian Knightlife by James Hogan ISBN: 0743435915 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Anguished Dawn by James Baen, James Hogan ISBN: 0743435818 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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