About this book
Titan’s Song grew out of my fascination with the idea that home is not only a place, but a relationship. The MacIver Kids Adventures have always been about found family, courage, and young people stepping into situations larger than themselves, but this book carries that idea farther than ever before — all the way to Titan, where another people are facing the possible loss of the world they have built. The distress call from Aha Nui is not just a plot device. It is a question: what do we owe to one another when a world begins to fail?
At its heart, this is a story about ecological imbalance, cultural memory, and the danger of waiting too long to listen. The methane lakes, the methalodons, the Moai, and the Rapa Nui-inspired world of Aha Nui allowed me to explore environmental crisis through a science-fiction lens, but the emotional core is very human. A community has warnings in front of it, leaders who would rather manage appearances, and young people willing to say that survival matters more than comfort or denial.
I wanted the world beneath Saturn’s rings to feel beautiful, strange, and alive — not simply as a backdrop for adventure, but as a place worth protecting. The research and imagination behind the book brought together Titan’s methane seas, the visual language of Rapa Nui, family systems, migration, mythology, and the way cultures carry memory after displacement. Like much of my work, it asks readers to see environmental damage not as an abstract crisis, but as something that touches homes, families, animals, traditions, and futures.
For educators and librarians, I hope Titan’s Song offers a doorway into conversations about climate, energy, colonial displacement, cultural resilience, and responsibility without losing the wonder and momentum of young adult science fiction. For readers, I hope it feels like an adventure first — full of danger, mystery, humour, and the fierce loyalty of the MacIver kids — but that it leaves behind a quieter question: when the song of a world changes, are we brave enough to listen?
