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 [...]
Reviews of Books by Larry Niven
Ringworld’s Children
Known Space
March 23rd, 2011 — Book Reviews | | Author : Larry Niven
Tags: Author Larry Niven, Genre Science Fiction, Series Known Space
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Destroyer of Worlds
Known Space
April 14th, 2010 — Book Reviews | | Authors : Larry Niven, Edward M Lerner
Tags: Author Edward M Lerner, Author Larry Niven, Genre Science Fiction, Series 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
June 9th, 2009 — Book Reviews | | Authors : Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Tags: Author Jerry Pournelle, Author Larry Niven
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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