Review: A fascinating glimpse of a future society and life-or-death struggles.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
Titans by Edward W. Robertson – Rob Dunbar is about 3,000 years old and has experienced much of Earth’s civilizations and fought in many wars. He can’t explain why he does not age, but the reader learns much about his long life. Now, Earthlings have colonies on the Moon, Mars, and Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. In addition, a large population of artificial intelligence beings has developed and huge corporations control peoples’ lives. Rob is bored teaching history, and an AI stranger (Baxter) easily involves him in helping to mitigate the tyranny of corporations over a group of citizens on Titan that is being sent to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. However, the corporations will not tolerate any interference in their rule and violence ensues. It’s a fascinating glimpse of a future society with unique and appealing characters that endure life-or-death struggles.