Saturn Returns

Saturn Returns was an exceptional book, reminding me of far-future master works like Marrow, and Ring. Though the science in the book is not as "hard" as in other authors books, the ideas Williams brings to light are still marvelous, unique, and mind boggling. The literature of the book is excelent, something past readers of williams would expect. All togather a very good read.

I've found "Saturn Returns" by pure chance during a business trip at a bookstore and must say I am glad I found it! Even with a very hard, 13- to 14-hour work schedule, I read it in just one week. A real page turner for sure. The book is crammed with interesting, "high-concept" ideas, and is written in fluid, easy to read and very pleasant prose. Although its galactic scope and mind-blowing time scale put it firmly in the realm of space opera, the book is "realistic" enough in its science to please hard sci-fi fans (I count myself as one). The treatment given to the concept of individual identity is very provoking and by far the highest point of the book. Most impressive, mr. Williams is able to provide enough information to the reader about it and how it influences society at large with a extremely low volume of infodumps. The realities of galactic society, both past and present, are presented through the story in a fluid, natural way, without falling in the lecture mode so often used. Overall, I enjoyed this book immensely and will buy the reminder books in the trilogy for sure.

This is the first book I read by Sean Williams, and I like it very much, a grand setting (the entire galaxy), a mystery to solve (although we'll probably need to wait until book 3 of the triligy to find out the final answer, but there're enough hints to keep the reader interested), and the fate of the human race hang in the balance, what more can you ask for? And I have to give the author credit for not using FTL when writing a galactic spanning story, very interesting approach.

This author is amazing, he always amazes me, before with Shane Dix and now alone. I really look forward for his future books!

In the very distant future, a person wakes up on a ship with no memory and his rescuer the Jinc, a gestalt mind with its people all part of that mind. They find him floating in space before he was vaporized by nukes and they have put him back together. One of the only mistakes is they made him a woman when Imre Bergamasc was always a man. When he fails to remember information they want from him, they want to absorb in their gestalt. A mysterious voice abets his escape by opening up a ship closed tothe jinc. Imre learns that the Continuum is destroyed, the worlds no longer looped together. He finds that the next step in humanity's evolution is no more and communicating on the Line is gone. The Slow Wave was responsible for all this yet nobody know if it was a man made weapon. Imre meets up with his former members of the corps and they soon start working together. It seems there is a connection between the Slow Wave and Imre's murder and finding it will tell them what direction their lives should take if they are able to gather reliable information without getting killed by their enemies. Sean Williams entertains his readers with a bleak and dark future of which the tragedy is that the galaxy was once golden. Imre is the star, focus and the man with the answer although between his amnesia and the fact that he is a Singleton makes it difficult to put the pieces of his memory back together. Mates of the hero are spread throughout the universe slowly but find themselves reaching out to the members of the Corp from clues they left behind. This is space opera at its very best with its exciting scenes and the descriptions of a puzzle that destroyed the structure of the known universe. Readers will like Imre, a combination of a hard and vulnerable person who needs to find out what he has done to change the known universe. Harriet Klausner