- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; Reissue edition (18 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0812580109
- ISBN-13: 978-0812580105
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.7 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 940,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Larry Niven and Steve Barnes make a good combination. Sometimes.
Their output, as collaborators, is a little variable, however: The Dream Park novels were superb, while the Descent of Anansi was decidely mediocre.
Unfortunately, "Saturn's Race" falls into the mediocre category.
Set in a near future where corporations are taking control of the planet from national governments, and nation states are "going corporate", Saturn's Race tells the tale of a final, individual, rebellion against that status quo.
The basic premise is excellent, if a little black-and-white (the corporations, or somebody in control of them, have rendered a generation infertile in the third world), but the execution is very much lacklustre.
A bit of a hack novel, really, and not worth bothering with unless you're a fan.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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I love Niven, but not this one. For the first time in 25 years, a Niven book that I want to put down unfinished.
In a computer-perfect(!) world, the beautiful heroine slowly comes to realise that all is not well. Yes, she does get laid, but it actually fits into the (poor) story line.
I cannot recommend this one; sorry.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I am somewhat at a loss as to why this novel has garnered generally negative reviews. While not groundbreaking and perhaps not exhibiting any enormously attention-grabbing "edge", I do think this is a quintessential SF novel, containing everything that any SF fan has any right to expect from a good and seasoned SF writer. Interestingly, it is the typical sort of novel we would get if science fiction was mainstream, and as such it is a very interesting study in the main tropes of the SF genre. It paints a future which is both colorfully attractive and (sadly) realistically corrupt, featuring quite interesting characters and some fairly outrageous but at the same time fairly believable ideas about artificial intelligence.
I think this is a very good science fiction novel, worth reading more than once, and written with the experienced insider's understanding of the genre. This is the kind of book that you couldn't properly turn into a movie, because a mainstream audience unfamiliar with science fiction simply wouldn't understand it, or accept its bold plot resolution. At the same time the story doesn't have the kind of quick "balls-to-the-walls" action that most sci-fi movies seem to need in order to retake the cost of their production at the box office.
In short, if you are a real appreciator of science fiction literature, this book ought to take you for an enjoyable ride in an intriguing, and intriguingly believable, future world filled with technology and politics and forward-looking ideas. I absolutely recommend it.
I think this is a very good science fiction novel, worth reading more than once, and written with the experienced insider's understanding of the genre. This is the kind of book that you couldn't properly turn into a movie, because a mainstream audience unfamiliar with science fiction simply wouldn't understand it, or accept its bold plot resolution. At the same time the story doesn't have the kind of quick "balls-to-the-walls" action that most sci-fi movies seem to need in order to retake the cost of their production at the box office.
In short, if you are a real appreciator of science fiction literature, this book ought to take you for an enjoyable ride in an intriguing, and intriguingly believable, future world filled with technology and politics and forward-looking ideas. I absolutely recommend it.
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