Titan - Gaean, Bk 1 Author:John Varley Varley's monumental trilogy is hailed as a modern triumph of the imagination by critics and fans--an epic that begins with humankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn, and the shocking discovery that the satellite is a giant alien being named Gaea. This first novel of the trilogy is now repackaged. — Earth astronaut Cirocco "Ro... more »cky" Jones and her crew are shipwrecked on Gaea, a titanic, sentient artificial satellite of Saturn with her own ecology and inhabitants. The fauna of Gaea include dirigible-like flying creatures and a race of sapient centauroids, the Titanides.
Hugo nominee for Best Novel - 1980; Nebula nominee for Best Novel - 1979« less