Protector
Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society...
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Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days — Brennan figured to meet that ship first...He was never seen again — at least not by those alive at the time.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345293022 (0345293029)
Publish date: September 12th 1987
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
Series: Known Space
(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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