Saturn vs The January Dancer: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Action & Adventure, Space opera, Science Fiction, Fiction
Saturn
“Pancho Lane frowned at her sister.”
Overview: Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth…
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The January Dancer
A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Saturn has the widest readership — 1492 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Saturn | The January Dancer | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (1492) | 3.5 (1191) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (8) | 3.0 (8) |
| Google Books | — | 2.5 (10) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (9) | — |
Reception
| Saturn | The January Dancer | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1492 | 1191 |
| Editions | 8 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 919 | 1498 |
| Reading it now | 55 | 102 |
| Written reviews | 127 | 190 |
| Wikipedia attention | 83033 | — |
| Pages | 430 | — |