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Summary: A nice book.
Review: A very well written book. Made me longing to read the next book in the series.
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Summary: Imaginative to a point...
Review: An artifact is discovered in space...inside is an amazing assortment of discoveries, but more importantly our group of people need to find a way off this thing.1) Fantastic world created!! 2) Like others have said the author suffers from immaturity when handling the sexual portion of this book. 3) Definitely not for kids! Not to mention there are so many other things that could happen without characters having sex ever thirty pages or so. I literally counted three scenes within the space of 80-90 pages...which took up most of those pages. 4)Characters were ok, but nothing too rememberable. OVERALL: Kept reading in the hopes things would improve but they didn't. Gave it a two stars vs. one because of the fantastic world created in general. For exploring an alien artifact, Greg Bear's "Eon" was a much better read (and more mature)
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Summary: Now a classic, the 1st large-scale genetic engineering novel
Review: And don't miss the sequels Wizard and Demon
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Summary: Its taken over a year
Review: But I finally read the entire trilogy. Titan seems to be out of stock everywhere but Amazon and was well worth the wait. All the truths that were established in the other two novels are blown completely away. Proof again that the reader is always as ignorant as the narrator.
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Summary: I've read this, plus both sequals many times.
Review: Each one is interesting, imaginative, and something I enjoy reading over and over (which I have done). They are books I would suggest to anyone who loves science fiction, fantasy, or good entertainemnt.
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Summary: Too bizarre to be believed
Review: Great science fiction is a story that has elements that can be believed. Mr Varley has written a fair FANTASY novel, complete with dysfunctional and bizarre main characters. But as a SCIENCE FICTION novel, this book falls far short of the true standard for good science fiction-it is just to weird to be real.
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Summary: Start of the best trilogy in science fiction
Review: I adore the Gaean trilogy. The imagination required to create and furnish a believable and yet wondrous world *without* invoking a load of warp-drive stupidity is itself a feat worth applauding. This story of a world where genetic design of life is the norm, and yet life itself is non-technocratic, is amazing. And, on top of all this, the characters are well rounded and charismatic, as Varley can take his time over the three books to develop them all. Get all thee books; you'll be glad you did!
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Summary: A great coversion vessle for the non-reader.
Review: I am not a book reader. But, when I started to read this first installment in the trilogy, the imagery was so intense that I could not put the book down. I own a set from 1985, and am purchasing a newer version. It is a must read for the sci-fi enthusiast that really likes movies rather than books. I have read it at least 5 times through and recommend it for the non-readers as well as the enthusiastic "bookworms."
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I bought the entire trilogy at a garage sale, a few years back. To this day, these books are my favorite. I've read them again, and again. There is a constant bit of suspence, or wondering. The reader is always kept in the dark about this detail, or that detail until the very end, when everything is wrapped up beautifully. I only wish there were more books!
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Summary: I ate my hat - now will you?
Review: I bought this on the recommendation of a friend and to be honest, I had a few reservations. All the descriptions of the book, including those here on amazon.com sounded a little hoky and a little weird. I said I would eat my hat if I loved the book. In time I was duly forced to get out the salt and pepper and get torn in to my trilby. This is a massively enjoyable book that is an exercise in imagination beyond imagination. For those looking for a more concrete idea of what Titan is about and how good it is then look no further than Larry Niven's Ringworld or A World Out of Time. It's drawn from exactly the same vein as those two classics. Varley has let his imagination run wild while still retaining suspension of disbelief. To those who claim this book is not SF then I would challenge you to point out exactly where. This is no less SF than the aforementioned Niven classics and as a fan of hard SF than is a strong recommendation in its favour. Varley writes with a terrific style, being easy to read and maintaining a breakneck pace, never once lulling into middle-book periods of tedium that seem to plague some novels. Having read this book, having been proved wrong and having enjoyed it immensely I can't recommend this book strongly enough to anyone with a mind for SF or good fantasy for that matter. If you like the aforementioned Niven books then why haven't you bought this earlier? My only regret is not discovering it sooner. Now, anyone know where I can get a copy of Wizard and Demon? :o)
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