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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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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!
"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
Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction
novel I have ever read." "The San Francisco Chronicle" declared
that "as science fiction, "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of the
most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as "Footfall
"and "The Legacy of Heorot, " return us to the Mote, and to the
universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally
Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the
mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own
solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and
agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind
has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological
forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator,
Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed
by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the
Moties must breed-- or die. And now the fragile wall separating
them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.
"Fleet of Worlds" marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length
collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he
created for his bestselling Ringworld series. Teaming up with
fellow SF writer Edward M. Lerner, "Fleet of Worlds" takes a closer
look at the Human-Puppeteer (Citizens) relations and the events
leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs
is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully
serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying
starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the
Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from....
A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core has unleashed a
wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The
Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with
them.
Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly
volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor,
they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path--and
uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of
worlds.
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
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
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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