[REVIEW] Ben Bova, Titan

[rfmcdonald]

Science fiction author Ben Bova's Titan, the latest installment in his Grand Tour series, unfortunately shares in the weaknesses of too many of his other books. Are the characters cardboard creations awkwardly voicing several distinct political positions in the context of simplified and frankly unbelievable geopolitical and astronomical environments that might not even been fact-checked (Ontario Lacus appears to be the only lake-like body on Titan, for instance)? Yes, yes, yes. Oh, and isolated underpopulated space colonies can easily strike out on their own.