The Clouds of Saturn Author:Michael McCollum Mercenary Lars Sands was down and out. Jobs in the cloudways of Saturn were scare. and he was dangerously close to broke, His ship was long past due for an overhaul. And his brother had just been shot down in cold blood by the Alliance, a power hungry coalition of cloud cities, So when a mysterious agent offered him a wildly lucrative job that m... more »eant revenge on the Alliance, Lars took it - and he and the crew of this ship SparrowHawk flew straight in to the midd;e of a struggle for the future of humanitys' adopted planet.
When the sun flared out of control and boiled Earth's oceans, humanity took refuge in a place that few would have predicted. In the greatest migration in history, the entire human race took up residence among the towering clouds and deep clear-air canyons of Saturn's upper atmosphere. Having survived the traitor star, they returned to the all-too-human tradition of internecine strife. The new city-states of Saturn began to resemble those of ancient Greece, with one group of cities taking on the role of militaristic Sparta.« less