Titan is a
science fiction novel by
Stephen Baxter
2004:
NASA'S
CASSINI probe reaches
Saturn, discovering evidence of life on the moon Titan and the amazing story of Titan begins ...
Thanks to one woman's will to succeed and the triumph of a dream over
bureaucracy and
fear, frail
humans are hurled on a ten-year one-way trip to
investigate evidence of life on Saturn's moon, Titan. Their ship is patched together from the remnants of fifty years of spaceflight, and they leave earth in the face of violent opposition from the military. Over the ten year journey the
political situation worsens between
China and
America. As the crew near the edge of the
solar system, news from earth brings them close to the edge of sanity ...