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Bowl of Heaven (Paperback)
Gregory Benford, Larry Niven
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When the Sunseeker laves Earth, bound for the planet called
"Glory", its crew knows they will never see home again. None of
them can ever have imagined, however, what they will find along the
way. A gargantuan object, with its own star nettled inside. The
bowl shaped structure is following the same path as the Sunseeker
and it has a habitable are the size of millions of Earths, A
landing party is sent to the surface, where they encounter some of
the structures inhabitants - wildly differing species, and not all
of them friendly.
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens,
have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part
of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a
structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of
two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an
eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a
vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with
a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes
disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew
faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others. The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre.
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Ringworld (Paperback)
Larry Niven
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R250
R193
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A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a
thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal
waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans;
oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and
the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance
had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a
struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever
known....@lt;br@gt;"Massively entertaining."@lt;br@gt;CLEVELAND
PLAIN-DEALER
"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had
settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators
humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland
outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroe
Some twenty years have passed since the passengers and crew of the
starship Geographic established a colony on the hostile alien world
of Avalon. In that time, a new generation has grown up in the peace
and serenity of the island paradise of Camelot, igno
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Inferno (Paperback, First)
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
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R424
R350
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After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science
fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates
of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he
attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan
himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by
Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical
tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new,
puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present
day.
Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written!
The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone dares approach them to learn.
Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?
"Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe." --San Diego Union-Tribune
The Ringworld is dying. And this time even Louis Wu - captive of
the hyper-intelligent alien Tunesmith - may be unable to save it.
Even if Louis can escape he will then have to survive in a galaxy
ravaged by interstellar war and deadly political intrigue. For the
Ringworld is no longer a secret and entire civilisations now battle
to control its power. The victorious race that conquers the
Ringworld will conquer the galaxy ... and no one will be able to
stop them. But Louis Wu is going to try.
Ringworld: the most stunning artifact in known space, an
articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area.
Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry
Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a
near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstasy), the aged Kzin
warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of
mad Nessus, return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm.
IN the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's
incredible secrets...
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Fate of Worlds (Paperback)
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
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R497
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For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled
over the largest artifact--and grandest prize--in the galaxy: the
all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But
without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three
rival war fleets.
"Something" must justify the blood and treasure that have been
spent. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be
despoiled of its secrets, the Puppeteers will be forced to
surrender theirs. Everyone knows that the Puppeteers are
cowards.
But the crises converging upon the trillion Puppeteers of the Fleet
of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas:
Adventurer Louis Wu and the exiled Puppeteer known only as
Hindmost, marooned together for more than a decade, escaped from
the Ringworld before it disappeared. And throughout those years, as
he studied Ringworld technology, Hindmost has plotted to reclaim
his power ...
Ol't'ro, the Gw'oth ensemble mind--and the Fleet of World's
unsuspected puppet master for a century--is deviously brilliant.
And, increasingly unbalanced ...
Proteus, the artificial intelligence on which--in desperation--the
Puppeteers rely to manage their defenses, is outgrowing its
programming. And the supposed constraints on its initiative
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Sigmund Ausfaller, paranoid and disgraced hero of the lost human
colony of New Terra, knows that "something" threatens his adopted
home world. And that it must be stopped ...
Achilles, the megalomaniac Puppeteer, twice banished--and twice
rehabilitated--sees the Fleet of World's existential crisis as a
new opportunity to reclaim supreme power. Whatever the risks
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One way or another, the fabled race of Puppeteers may have come to
the end of their days in "Fate of Worlds, "the final installment to
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner's "Fleet of Worlds "series.
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