Wednesday 23 February 2011

Death On Saturn's Moon

An ungainly spacecraft descends through the frozen orange mist of Titan's atmosphere. We are on a moon of Saturn far, far from planet earth. It is the year 2057. Special investigator Hayes, a former military man, watches uneasily as a pilot rocks and bumps the craft through the howling winds to the surface below. They approach a mining research base - an ugly, weathered structure half-buried on the surface below. Hayes has been sent by the current political regime on earth -a regime that supports endless war as a means of economic and political survival - to investigate the death of base project leader Barnett. Hayes meets up with the two remaining inhabitants of the labyrinthine station - Lippert, a melancholy scientist and Sterner, the abrasive, not-so-competent chief engineer. He is stonewalled by both as he tries to determine if Barnett's death was the result of foul play. Hayes is told that Barnett took a casual stroll outside into the poisonous atmosphere - with no suit, no protection - but why? He learns that Lippert and Barnett had been studying the atmosphere of Titan and the storms that come and go unpredictably with ferocious intensity. They spent a lot more time on this research than on the methane gas study they were supposed to be conducting and seem to have become obsessed by the elements. As Hayes pushes on with his investigation, the storm outside intensifies, making departure impossible. A series of mysterious and bizarre incidents occur making him ...

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