Titan (Gaea) by John Varley Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Titan (Gaea)
Book Review: TITAN, wildly imaginative SF saga
Summary: 5 Stars
TITAN is the first book of the Gaea Trilogy, and a glorious introduction to Gaea and all her creations. Varley gets to the meat of the story quickly and captivatingly. Set in the near future, Earths astronomers discover something odd orbiting Saturn, and send a manned mission to investigate. They find a large wheel, obviously an artifact, of completely unknown origin. The Mission Commander orders Ringmaster into orbit near the rim of the wheel. Then the fun begins! Their adventures blossom into a saga of epic scale. You will meet some of the most fascinating creatures imaginable.Book Review: TITANically overrated
Summary: 1 Stars
This was the first SF book I read and consequently almost the last. Varley's descriptions are derivative, referring to 20th century popular culture ("The Wizard of Oz," "2001: A Space Odyssey," and a car no one remembers) and showing very little imagination. The plot was thoroughly forgettable; the campy references, alas, have not been. (It's been over a decade since I read it.) I had forgotten Varley was the author until I spotted this book on the shelf recently, and I was surprised, since he gets such good reviews. On this one he shouldn't.Book Review: The Best Science-Fiction I ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I read John Varley (and perhaps the first time I read Science Fiction) it was when I bought Demon, the last episode of the Gea trilogy by mistake. Imagine me with 15 ears old trying to read something so strange as Demon, which I think is the strongest episode of the Gaea trilogy. In the beginning I was almost giving up to read the book but I must confess that when I finished it I read it more 2 times, I bought Titan and Wizard and read all the trilogy more 3 or 4 times.Its amazing how John Varley is able to construct a so strange universe and keep it consistent, every time that I make another read I find something new, a detail that I didn't notice.
Now I'm 26 years old and I'm aungry to read more of Varley, I'm just waiting for Portuguese editions of the other books.
I hope that some day somebody try to make a movie of the trilogy.
Book Review: The best of the best!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read the Titan, Wizard, and Demon trilogy over and over and I never tire of them. To read these novels is to visit a world unlike any you have seen before. If you are deciding whether or not to read these books, I envy you. A person only gets to read a triology like this for the first time once in a lifetime.
Book Review: The most fun I've ever had reading a novel.
Summary: 5 Stars
Varley's Gaian series gave me an adrenalin surge unsurpassed as of yet in all my eighteen years of reading science fiction. This is the purest fun you could have reading, and I believe it's one of the finest science fiction series ever published. My hands might as well have caught fire when I read this! I read this over sixteen years ago, and I still count it among my top five reads, of any kind, EVER. And my personal top ten book list includes UBIK by Philip K. Dick, Varley, Tolkien, Stephen King's Night Shift and The Mist!