Titan, Robert Kroese
Titan, Robert Kroese
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Titan

Author: Robert Kroese

Series: Mammon #1

Narrator: Jonathan Beville

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/25/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

By the year 2032, the US federal debt has surpassed $50 trillion. The American empire is on the verge of collapse.

An entrepreneur named Kade Kapur has an idea for rescuing the debt-ridden United States: the government will issue stock in a company with exclusive mining rights to an asteroid whose orbit will soon bring it near Earth. The asteroid, which contains $10 trillion in valuable minerals, is officially called 2015 RK 16 Maimonides, but it soon comes to be known by another name: Mammon.

Fortunes are made and America seems to have avoided an economic collapse. But when the plan to capture the asteroid goes awry, the sky will fall . . .

About Robert Kroese

In second grade, Robert Kroese wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written many other books, including the Mercury, Saga of the Iron Dragon, Land of Dis, Starship Grifters Universe, and Counterfeit Sorcerer series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on April 06, 2013

It kept my interest long enough to finish reading it. Since the main character is a bourgeois capitalist pig-dog, and he's opposed only by other such characters, it's hard to find any real empathy for anyone in the entire book (except for maybe one of the women he screws over).......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on July 14, 2024

Original review: 2017-July or August (but updated and greatly expanded 2020-04-10) - Fascinating book. I did not read the paperback, I listened to the LibriVox free audio recording from: [URL not allowed]-titan-by-the... The reader, Richard Kilmer, has a very mellifluous voice. Very easy to lis......more