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Crashlander
A book that starts good and declines steadily.: Known Space. It's cool. Beowulf Shaeffer. Cool guy. Mostly. The first few stories, especially the Nebula award winning "Neutron Star," are of extremely high quality. It's something of a shock, [... more]
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Flatlander
wrong info: This Kindle item is not Niven book Flatlander but only a short story of the same name. Don't be fooled; although this claims to be 368 pages it is really about 30 pages. I complained to Amazon about the misleading info but they will not do [... more]
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A World Out of Time
A good novel and this is actually "Larry's" favorite universe.: World-out-of-Time grew out of a short story written by Niven for the science fiction magazine, Analog, in the mid-1970s. This reviewer had met Larry Niven (Lawrence Van Colt) back [... more]
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Ringworld
Dull dull and dull: I did not choose to read this book; a client is reading it, and I need to keep pace. I figured it won a Hugo so how bad could it be? I would never have guessed. Other posts have really said it all: the characters are cardboard and so [... more]
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Protector
Good Sci-Fi with an anthropological twist that is entertaining.: Protector I went into this book thinking that it would be the story of a really old alien who came to earth and found something in us worth saving. Boy, was I in for a surprise. The biggest [... more]
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The Ringworld Throne
Amazon.com Review: In Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The center of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles [... more]
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The Mote in God's Eye
Amazon.com Review: In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system [... more]
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The Gripping Hand
enough with the coffee already: You know I always loved Niven's other works. I grew up on them, and frequently found them interesting after multiple reads (Ringworld, Destiny's Road, anyone?), but I just don't get this one. Big yawn, too much confusing [... more]
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Scatterbrain
Amazon.com Review: Scatterbrain is an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink collection of writings from award-winning science fiction master Larry Niven. Perhaps best known for his novel Ringworld and Three Books of Known Space, Niven is a highly [... more]
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Destiny's Road
Amazon.com Review: Humanity tried to conquer the stars and failed. Then it was time to try again, on Destiny. But even as the new colony was taking hold, the settlers were in revolt against one another. While some stayed on the new planet with what [... more]
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Saturn's Race
Amazon.com Review: Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Boy turns out to be an old man impersonating his own grandson. Girl discovers diabolical plot to sterilize the Third World. Boy erases girl's memory. Intrigue upon intrigue unfolds, [... more]
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Ringworld's Children
Amazon.com Review: Larry Niven may be America's greatest living hard-SF writer. Much of his SF belongs to his famous future history, the Tales of Known Space. His preeminent creation is the Ringworld: an immense, artificial, ring-shaped planet that [... more]
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