Reviews of Books by Larry Niven

Ringworld’s Children

Known Space

I picked this up because I thought I had never read it. Now I’m not sure. Certainly, it wasn’t entirely clear. I suspect that there is another Niven book with a similar scene in it – probably not hard. I enjoyed this , but I did feel that the ending set up too much for [...]

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Destroyer of Worlds

Known Space

A new Niven! Cool! A new Known Space book! Even better! Mind you, once I got it home I flipped it open and noticed 2 other books with similar names on the fly leaf Nooooo!!! I haven’t managed to pick up volume 3 *again* have I?!?! But, no. It seems to be a prequel to [...]

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Beowolf’s Children

I picked up this book when I needed a ‘handbag book’, as I was going to spend some hours waiting at the mechanic’s. I examined my bookshelves and realised to my surprise that I had never finished Beowolf’s Children – when I first bought it, the opening pages didn’t take my fancy. That was many [...]

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