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Indlæser... The Darkest Side of Saturn: Odyssey of a Reluctant Prophet of Doomaf Tony Taylor
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Itâe(tm)s 1997 at a mountaintop observatory in Southern California where spacecraft navigator Harris Mitchel and astronomer Diana Muse-Jones discover a dangerous asteroid which may hit the earth within two decades. As the asteroid tumbles through space towards an uncertain impact, Harris and Diana fight bitterly over how to announce their discovery.When Harris goes public to a skeptical worldâe"at the cost of his and Dianaâe(tm)s careersâe"he sends their already turbulent relationship into a blaze of conflicting passions. As his notoriety builds, a fanatical preacher and his unhinged followers stalk him while an obnoxious radio personality provides disruptive help. Harris becomes an unwilling Pied Piper for his own overzealous followers hungry for belief and eager for guidance into an uncertain and tumultuous future.In this science fiction drama the characters battle each other in contests of Damn your world view! against a background of hard science, religion, romance, metaphysical speculation, and the forces of nature versus human passions and dreams. Meanwhile an asteroid hurtles through the solar system and global salvation or disaster hangs in the balance.âeoeA courageous and visionary work âe¦ an instant classic.âeâe"BlueInk Reviews No library descriptions found. |
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Religion, science, love, lust and asteroids. What more could you possibly ask for in a book? I really enjoyed reading this book and the ending was not as I had expected, which is always nice. Throughout the story there appears to be the underlying theme of science vs religion with Harris Mitchel the interplanetary navigator who discovers an asteroid on a collision course with earth and the fundamentalist Earnst Farnsworth, a Doctor of divinity who believes that Mitchel is (more or less) the Devil incarnate. I enjoyed the almost internal debate which occurred in this book and although the science appeared to have won out in the end, this book was written in such a way that science eventually gave way to religion in itself. Which i felt gave the book a nice symmetry. In addition to the symmetry with religion vs science there was also symmetry in the love lives of Harris and his colleague Dianna Muse-Jones. Both had marriages which were on the rocks due to their utmost devotion to their careers, which lead to their spouses have affairs (with each other!) and finally the coupling of Harris and Dianna who had (subconsciously?) been lusting over one another since their meeting.
Overall this book was packed with enough juicy cliff hangers to keep me wanting to read more although some of the chapters were slightly tedious. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in space as there are parts of the book which put you into the position of astronomers and the likes giving you a little taste of their professions. In addition to this there is some wonderful philosophical prose which really gets you thinking. (