The Finger of Saturn

Overview:

• Title: The Finger of Saturn
• Author: Victor Canning
• Year: 1973
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd.
• Binding: hb
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The Finger of Saturn
• Notes: Canning wrote many well-received thrillers. This book, which ends tragically, is structurally much like his other highly literate novels but has a key (and unexpected) science-fiction element in it: the existence on Earth of a small colony of alien beings nearly identical to human beings. How they came to be there, and what their origin is, however, is never clearly explained