James P. Hogan - Saturn 02 - The Anguished Dawn

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James P. Hogan
Sequel to:
Cradle of Saturn
Earth has been devastated after a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet ejected from
Jupiter. The poles and climatic bands have been shifted, continents and oceans resculpted
in titanic cataclysms, and civilization as we know it has ended.
Only the colony of Kronia, established among Saturn's moons, preserves technology
and human culture. While the few bands of dazed survivors left on Earth revert rapidly to
brutality and barbarism, the Kronian culture is already opening up new realms of physics
that will carry humankind to the stars.
The Kronians have a vision of founding a new civilization on the reborn Earth, building
upon foundations of freedom and the power of unbridled human creativity worthy of a
stargoing civilization, and avoiding the destructive influences of conquest and exploitation.
So when conditions on Earth stabilize sufficiently, Landen Keene, previously a nuclear
propulsion engineer in the world that no longer exists, returns with the first Kronian
reconnaissance mission to establish a base in what was a region of Africa, and commence
the task of beginning anew.
But not everyone wants a free society in which individual worth is measured by ability
and contribution, not possessions and power. The Terrans who were brought to Kronia
included people whose status and recognition on Earth stemmed from wielding power of
the kind that the old order understood. When their bid for a bigger part in running things
fails, they resort to deception, violence, and the methods that previously served them
well.
They plan a series of coordinated moves to seize the newly established base on Earth,
and initiate a new Terran order built on the old principles of force, subjugation, and
domination all over again. Isolated by distance from the hope of any immediate help from
Saturn, and with only a few helpers and pitifully slim resources at his disposal, Keene
emerges as the only hope of improvising an effective resistance.
But maybe that was precisely why he was sent there.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James P. Hogan is a science fiction writer in the grand tradition, combining informed and accurate
speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful story-telling and
living, breathing characters.
Born in London in 1941, he worked as an aeronautical engineer specializing in electronics and
digital systems, and for several major computer firms before turning to writing full-time in 1979.
His first novel was greeted by Isaac Asimov with the rave, "Pure science fiction ... Arthur Clarke,
move over!" and his subsequent work quickly consolidated his reputation as a major SF author. He
has written over a dozen novels including Paths to Otherwhere and Bug Park (both Baen), the
"Giants" series (coming soon from Baen), the New York Times bestsellers The Proteus Operation
and Endgame Enigma and the Prometheus Award Winner The Multiplex Man (all available from
Baen). Hogan currently splits his time between residences in Ireland and Florida.
More information about James Hogan and his work is available from his website at
http://jamesphogan.com.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2003 by James P. Hogan
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com
ISBN: 0-7434-3581-8
Cover art by David Mattingly
Maps by Randy Asplund
First printing, June 2003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hogan, James P.
The anguished dawn / James P. Hogan.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7434-3581-8
1. Regression (Civilization)-Fiction. 2. Power (Social sciences)-Fiction. 3.
Space colonies-Fiction. 4. Disasters-Fiction. I. Title.
PR6058.O348A85 2003
823’.914-dc21
2003006194
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
Dedication
To Tim Gleason-in appreciation of
all the help and good advice over the years.
Acknowledgments
The help of the following people is gratefully appreciated:
Dr. Andre Assis, Institute of Physics, Campinas, Brazil, for answering questions on his
theoretical work deriving the gravitational force as an electrical effect.
Dr. John Ackerman, for much correspondence concerning his fascinating interpretation of the
Indian Vedas as a record of Mars encounters.
Larry Kos, of NASA, Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, AL, for advice on orbits and
weird gravitational effects.
Mark Luljak of Fairlight Consulting, Louisville, KY, and Myrranda Hunter of NASA, Ames,
CA, for much useful feedback from the first draft.
All those readers who demanded a sequel to Cradle of Saturn.
Charles Ginenthal and Lewis Greenberg for their support and encouragement.
Des Butler and Emer Carolan, Des Butler & Co., Sligo, Ireland, for photocopying, scanning, and
the like, without which the rest would all be in vain.
(See also the “Further Reading” section at the end of the book.)
By JAMES P. HOGAN
Inherit the Stars
The Genesis Machine
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Thrice Upon a Time
Giants’ Star
Voyage from Yesteryear
Code of the Lifemaker
The Proteus Operation
Endgame Enigma
The Mirror Maze
The Infinity Gambit
Entoverse
The Multiplex Man
Realtime Interrupt
Minds, Machines & Evolution
The Immortality Option
Paths to Otherwhere
Bug Park
Star Child
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution
Cradle of Saturn
The Anguished Dawn
The Legend That Was Earth
Martian Knightlife
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
The Kronians
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
PART TWO
The Sky Warriors
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
PART THREE
The Gods
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
CHAPTER FORTY
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
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