Gaea trilogy

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Gaea Trilogy
Titan
Wizard
Demon
Author John Varley
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Genrescience fiction
Publisher Berkley Books
Published1979-1984
No. of books3
An artist's rendering of a Stanford torus in the same configuration as the fictional artificial satellite of Saturn, Gaea Stanford torus under construction.jpg
An artist's rendering of a Stanford torus in the same configuration as the fictional artificial satellite of Saturn, Gaea

The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley. The stories tell of humanity's encounter with a living being in the shape of a 1,300 km diameter Stanford torus, inhabited by many different species, most notably the centaur-like Titanides, in orbit around the planet Saturn.

The novels are:

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