Titan in Fiction - Literature

Literature

• "Flight on Titan" (1935), short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum. A couple from Earth struggles through the frigid, windswept Titanian landscape.
• Sojarr of Titan (1941), novel by Manly Wade Wellman.
• The Puppet Masters (1951) by Robert A. Heinlein. Titan is the home of an elf-like species, which has been enslaved by parasitic aliens who can control them. These "puppet masters" attempt to take over the Earth by controlling human beings.
• The Rolling Stones (1952), novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The family Stone heads for Titan Base, colony.
• Trouble on Titan (1954), novel by Alan E. Nourse. Famously features a jet which uses the methane/ammonia atmosphere as fuel.
• First Law (1956), short story by Isaac Asimov. The story is set during a massive storms that strikes Titan regularly and features Mike Donovan, a roboticist who has to deal with a strange incident relevant to an unusual twist of the Three Laws of Robotics. The moon is correctly described as having no magnetic field.
• Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn (1958), novel by Isaac Asimov. Humans from the Sirius system establish a settlement on Titan as a provocation against the Earth government. Lucky Starr and Bigman Jones have to avert an interstellar war. Also features an emergency landing inside Mimas which is correctly described as mostly ice.
• The Sirens of Titan (1959), novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Features a journey that climaxes on Titan.
• The Game-Players of Titan (1963), novel by Philip K. Dick. A neurotic and suicidal man named Pete Garden must roll a three in Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of post-apocalyptic Earth, against opponents who are from Titan.
• Perry Rhodan (1960s), German pulp science fiction series. Titan has a prison and advanced medical facilities.
• World of Ptavvs (1966), Known Space novel by Larry Niven. Titan is one of the few worlds in the Solar System (along with Earth and Mars), which is not under jurisdiction of the Belt government. It is the site of the Titan Hotel, a honeymoon retreat for wealthy flatlander couples.
• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1973), spoof Space Opera novel by Harry Harrison. Titan is the home of Bug-eyed monsters which kidnap the heroine.
• Imperial Earth (1976), novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Titan is home to a human colony with a population of 250,000 and provides an important role in the Solar System's economics; Titan's atmosphere supplies the hydrogen needed to support interplanetary travel.
• If the Stars Are Gods (1977), novel by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund. Astronaut Bradley Reynolds makes direct contact with an alien artificial intelligence spread across Titan's surface.
• Eyes of Amber (1977), novelette by Joan D. Vinge. Titan is the home of extraterrestrial intelligence, the Tropemen.
• Code of the Lifemaker (1983) and The Immortality Option (1995), novels by James P. Hogan. Titan is inhabited by a race of Clanking Replicators
• Bio of a Space Tyrant (1983), series by Piers Anthony. Titan has been colonized by the Japanese, whereas Saturn has been colonized by the Russians, Chinese, and other former Asian nations in the post-diaspora future.
• Fiasco (1986), novel by Stanisław Lem. The first several chapters are set on Titan, with a character ending up frozen on the surface for several hundred years.
• Saturnalia (1986), novel by Grant Callin. Titan is one of the locations of an alien artifact. A fictional volcano, Mons Gargantua is described in the book as being so large as to even dwarf Olympus Mons.
• "Saturn's Child" by Nichelle Nichols and Margaret Wander Bonanno. In the late 21st century, Earth's first expedition to Titan discovers a highly evolved race of beings - the Fazisians - from another planet already living there.
• Mars trilogy (1996) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Nitrogen from Titan is used in the Terraforming of Mars.
• Titan (1997), novel by Stephen Baxter. A NASA mission to Titan must struggle to survive after a disastrous landing. Contains vivid depictions of a journey through the Saturnian system.
• Alpha Centauri (1997) by William Barton and Michael Capobianco. Titan is the birthplace of Maeru kai Ortega ("Kai"), one of the novel's primary point-of-view characters.
• "Slow Life" (2002) by Michael Swanwick. A expedition with human explorers and robotic fish exploring an ocean on Titan; won the 2003 Hugo Award.
• Titan (2006), novel by Ben Bova. Part of the Grand Tour series. Titan is being explored by an artificially intelligent rover which mysteriously begins malfunctioning, while a mobile human Space Colony explores the Rings and other moons.
• Sombras en Titán (Shadows in Titan) (2006), novel by José Antonio Suárez, features the moon prominently.
• "Audience of One" (2007), short story about First Contact.
• "Storm in a T-Suit" (2010), "Hatchway" (2011), and "Broadwing" (2011), short stories by Simon Petrie. A sequence exploring future human colonization of Titan.
• Communion of Dreams (2012), a novel by Jim Downey. A mysterious alien artifact is discovered on Titan that has strange effects on anyone who observes it.
• "A Titan for Christmas", a sci-fi romance novelette released in 2012 by Aria Kane, features a mining engineer who works on Titan and is trying to get home to Earth in time to spend Christmas with her family.