This book starts out as a normal “reach for the stars” book. A billionaire recruits three astronauts and
three civilians to fly his “starship” to Titan. If this seems familiar that is due to the
fact that similar situations are occurring as I write this. From Google, “The
most prominent billionaires with space companies include Elon Musk (SpaceX),
focused on Mars colonization and Starlink; Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin), aiming for
space industry and tourism; and Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), specializing
in suborbital tourism, while others like Fatih & Eren Ozmen (Sierra Nevada
Corp) and Kam Ghaffarian (Intuitive Machines) also have significant space
ventures.”
John Ward is a billionaire following the footsteps of real-life
billionaires. His goal seems
reasonable. He wants to see if Titan can
be colonized as Earth is in jeopardy due to climate change. Of course, it would
be interesting with just that premise, but the authors throw in intrigue,
deception, betrayal, and more.
This book stops dead just as it gets interesting. It shows the roots or being related to the TV
work of the authors. Keeping them
hanging until the next episode is a typical TV producer’s strategy. A nice wrap-up
with more to come is preferable to a cliff hanger, in my opinion.
Detour is a good book, with interesting, flawed characters
that is worth reading.
I only hope they don’t take forever to provide us with the
sequel.
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