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Anguished Dawn, the  Anguished Dawn, the (2003) [Novel] Reviews:
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Anguished Dawn Part: 2  Summary :  Earth has been devastated
after a near miss by the white-hot protoplanet Athena, ejected
from Jupiter. Its poles and climatic bands have been shifted,
and its continents and oceans resculpted in titanic cataclysms
producing results previously believed to require hundreds of
thousands of years. Civilization as we know it has ended. Only
the colony of Kronia, established among Saturn's moons to pursue
new values and free science from the old world's closed-minded
dogmas, preserves technology and human culture. While the few
bands of dazed survivors left on Earth succumb to a collective
amnesia of what went before and revert rapidly to brutality and
barbarism, the Kronian culture is already developing new
insights to the riddles of early human history and the origins
of the Solar System, and open