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Title: Frightfully believable
Review: Some reviewers seem to find the first part of the book nonbelievable. Being a professional historian, I am painfully aware how a civilized society can descend into ignorance, superstition, and barbarism in a surprisingly short time, for reasons even historians do not yet understand fully,( see Germany under Hitler, Russia inder Lenin and Stalin, Cambodia under Pol Pot, and China during the Cultural Revolution. ) I am also painfully aware of what happens when one political or religious group, be it Red, Brown, Black or Green, gains complete control over society, and as a result gets intoxicated by its power. I therefor e regard the first part of TITAN as a strong warning to be heeded, or ignored at our peril. The rest of the book I consider a good example of hardcore, near-future SF, the accuracy of which will be determined in 2004, when Cassini will reach Saturn.
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