by Larry Niven
(Original Review, 1980-07-29)Some apparent anomalies in Niven's "Protector".I am reasonably comfortable with Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe, however I have just finished rereading "Protector" for the umpteenth time and I am somewhat disturbed by the apparent incompatibility with other "Known S...
If any of Niven's "Known Space" books can be said to be the best, I think it would be this one. I rate it even above Ringworld, though the storyline is not as flashy as that book, being set as it is many hundreds of years before Ringworld takes place, when mankind is just beginning to explore the co...
This is my first entry in the Ringworld universe, and I did find it enjoyable. I borrowed it as an audiobook from the library so that's why I chose to begin the series here. I have read other Niven books, and it definitely felt like this was one of his. An alien race whose contact with earth could ...
The Protector was a genius. Great classic sci-fi with great ending.
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Another book of Niven's that's big on ideas. What I like about this particularly is the way he comes up with a plausible 'back-story' for an evolutionary ancestor of humanity and how that particular alien life-cycle might work.Also some of the stuff in space was fun - Kobold - although I found the s...
"Protector" has one of the best ideas I have seen in any SF novel, and I'm astonished to find that not one of my friends has it on their shelf. Here's an intro (all revealed very early on, so it hardly counts as a spoiler). It turns out that human beings aren't actually from Earth after all; we are ...
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