Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Saturn's Race
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Larry Niven
, Steven Barnes
Class/Genre: Science Fiction
Tor, Jul 2000, $24.95, 317 pp.
In 2020, planet earth is run by international business cartels so an individual’s options can be limited. Chaz Kato offers recent recipient of a Masters from UCLA, Lenore Myles a position at Xanadu, a man-made island fortress 800 miles to the west of her college. To entice her, Chaz provides her with his security codes that enable her to check into the island’s amazing technology.
However, Lenore learns of a conspiracy to sterilize the weak and pathetic masses. Afraid of everyone, especially her gracious host, Lenore flees paradise. The enigmatic Saturn realizes that Lenore has broken into the top secrets of Xanadu. He sets in motion a plan to eradicate the one person who expose the class cleansing plan with Chaz her only hope for survival, that is assuming he is not working for Saturn.
The Niven-Barnes team may be the best collaboration of writers in the last decade or two. Everything this dynamic duo paints is classy, thrilling science fiction as few authors can write. The latest triumphant dynamo, SATURN’S RACE, is a combination of future technology, a major social issue, and a espionage-mystery thriller blended into a superb tale that will attain top three status on everyone’s end of the year list.
Harriet Klausner
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