However, Gaby is not dead and rescues Cirocco, cutting off Gene's ear with a hatchet and destroying his face. He rapes and assaults Gaby and leaves her for dead, and then rapes Cirocco. During the journey, Gene's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Cirocco, Gaby, and Gene decide to climb up to this place using the support cables that maintain the structure against centrifugal force. The humans learn from the Titanides that the torus itself is alive, and a controlling intelligence, called Gaea, lives in the hub of the torus 600 km above them. They fight because of an impulse that occurs when they are near each other, but do not know why they have the impulse. The Titanides are in a perpetual state of war with the Angels, birdlike humanoid creatures. Cirocco finds she has the ability to speak their language. The remaining companions encounter the Titanides, strange centaur-like beings who speak a language based on music. He ultimately decides to leave his human companions to live with the blimp permanently. Calvin helps Gaby and Cirocco find the other crew members (except April). His blimp's name is Whistlestop, in human terms. Calvin can speak to the blimp and understand its responses, which consist of whistles. They find Calvin living as a companion inside a Blimp, an intelligent gasbag a kilometer long, one of many that swim forever in the air inside the habitat.
Initially separated, Cirroco and Gaby find each other and travel together through the world inside the torus to find the rest of the crew. The crew is rendered unconscious and later wake up inside the habitat. Before they can report this, the ship is entangled in cables from the object.
Commanding the ship is Cirocco Jones, a tall NASA career woman, aided by astronomer Gaby Plauget, the clone twin physicists April and August Polo, pilot Eugene Springfield, physician Calvin Greene and engineer Bill (whose last name is never given).Īs they reach the satellite they realize it is a huge hollow torus, a Stanford torus habitat.
Plot Ī scientific expedition to the planet Saturn in 2025, aboard the ship Ringmaster, discovers a strange satellite in orbit around the planet. It won the 1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1979, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980. Titan is a science fiction novel by American writer John Varley, the first book in his Gaea Trilogy, published in 1979.
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