Earth has been devastated after a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet ejected from Jupiter. The poles and climatic bands have been shifted, continents and oceans resculpted in titanic cataclysms, and civilization as we know it has ended.Only the colony of Kronia, established among Saturn's moons, preserves technology and human culture. While the few bands of dazed survivors left on Earth revert rapidly to brutality and barbarism, the Kronian culture is already opening up new realms of physics that will carry humankind to the stars.The Kronians have a vision of founding a new civilization on the reborn Earth, building upon foundations of freedom and the power of unbridled human creativity worthy of a stargoing civilization, and avoiding the destructive influences of conquest and exploitation. So when conditions on Earth stabilize sufficiently, Landen Keene, previously a nuclear propulsion engineer in the world that no longer exists, returns with the first Kronian reconnaissance mission to establish a base in what was a region of Africa, and commence the task of beginning anew.But not everyone wants a free society in which individual worth is measured by ability and contribution, not possessions and power. The Terrans who were brought to Kronia included people whose status and recognition on Earth stemmed from wielding power of the kind that the old order understood. When their bid for a bigger part in running things fails, they resort to deception, violence, and the methods that previously served them well.They plan a series of coordinated moves to seize the newly established base on Earth, and initiate a new Terran order built on the old principles of force, subjugation, and domination all over again. Isolated by distance from the hope of any immediate help from Saturn, and with only a few helpers and pitifully slim resources at his disposal, Keene emerges as the only hope of improvising an effective resistance.But maybe that was precisely why he was sent there.

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James P. Hogan

Baen ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

ibooks, Incorporated

Riverdale, NY, New York, New York State, 2003

United States, United States of America

First Edition first Printing, 2003

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"A Baen Books original"--T.p. verso.

From Publishers Weekly This clumsy sequel to Hogan's Cradle of Saturn will produce more anguished readers than satisfied ones. Maverick engineer Landen Keene has led his band of survivors from an Earth where civilization has been wrecked by the passage of a mysterious planetary body named Athena. They land among the Kronians, human settlers in the asteroid belt and Saturn's moons who have developed a utopian society and (conveniently) anti-gravity. Unfortunately, some of the other survivors from Earth, led by Kurt Zeigler, form a faction called the Pragmatists, who want to jettison Kronian ideals in favor of competition, money, militarism and a resettlement of Earth. With the help of the handful of surviving and implausibly primitive inhabitants of Earth, under the boy war-chief Rakki, the Pragmatists are making an alarming amount of progress. Luckily, the quick-thinking Keene can turn to Kronian loyalists who've infiltrated the Pragmatist ranks and to Pragmatist dissidents for help in thwarting the menace. Big action (or at least disaster) scenes don't make up for uneven pacing, the fringe cosmology of Immanuel Velikovsky, wooden characterization and excessive exposition.
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Product Description Earth was devastated by a white-hot protoplanet and the Kronian colony near Saturn is the sole preserver of its technology and human culture. LandenKeene is a key figure in Kronian efforts to rebuild civilisation on Earth but he must struggle against other survivors who have their own agenda.

After a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet, Earth is devastated, civilization as we know it has ended, and the survivors are reverting to barbarism. Only the Kronian colony on Saturn's moons preserves technology and human culture. Landen Keene, taken off the Earth before the disaster, is a key figure in the Kronian efforts to rebuild civilization on Earth. Then he finds that other survivors from Earth miss the power they once wielded, and are bent on restoring the old privileges and hierarchy, with themselves at the top. And if subtle methods fail, they won't hesitate to use the violent tactics that served them well back on Earth. . . .

After Earth is devastated by a near miss from a protoplanet, culture is preserved only in the Kronian colony near Saturn who send Landen Keene to help rebuild Earth's civilization, but others will do anything to regain their former power

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