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| View Larger Image | Neutron Star
by Larry Niven
| | List Price: | $6.99 |  | | 10 Used starting at: | $5.00 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 727346 | | Studio: | Del Rey | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 113 | | Publication Date: | February 12, 1986 | | Publisher: | Del Rey |
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Book Description
Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.
Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization throughout Known Space.
A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space!
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 19 reviews)
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Not Free SF Reader 
A collection mostly focused on Beowulf Shaeffer Known Space stars. The aforementioned character being one of your affable rogue adventurer types, getting into doing crazy jobs for cash for people like puppeteers.
Fun stuff, in the main and right on a 3.50 story average, so definitely a good book.
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Gravity tide ship rip.
4 out of 5
Bearding a puppeteer pirate.
3.5 out of 5
Fast centre trip finds hot stuff evidence.
3.5 out of 5
Ancient alien stuff with many settings could blow up.
3.5 out of 5
Outsider information Elephant Cannonball Express.
3.5 out of 5
Ramscoop tour insanity chase.
3 out of 5
Sentient race helping hand Grog deal.
4 out of 5
Hyperspace hostage artist ground hunt.
3 out of 5
March 01, 2008 | |
Kindle Edition is just the one short story, not the full collection 
It's a great short story, highly recommended. Well worth the 99ยข.
But it's not the full collection that is pictured, detailed, and reviewed, above.
January 06, 2008 | |
rich, deep universe of short stories
This is perhaps the most well thought out collection of short stories I've ever read. Each story adds dimension to the Known Universe which Niven has created. The species, planets and relationships are all explored in detail around thrilling plots. What's really novel about the collection is that it reads almost like a single story from cover to cover. Most of the short stories are about Beowulf Shaeffer and his dealings with the Puppeteers. There are a few others which are about other characters yet still adds depth to the universe.
November 29, 2007 | |
great collection of short SF stories
I'm not as well acquainted with Niven's work as these other reviewers, but I wanted to chime in here to say how great this book is. The stories are short enough to read in one sitting, which is the definition of a 'short' story, but many collections like this include longer texts that are hard to knock out before you fall asleep at night. Although it appears to be out of print, this book is readily available at many used book sellers.
September 24, 2007 | |
Wonderfully imaginative stories
I much prefer Niven's shorter, earlier, and solo efforts, and his first short story collection demonstrates why. This is a wonderful collection of short stories from Niven's Known Space universe, with stories ranging from the readable to the superb. There is an astonishing breadth of imagination displayed here, with not one but several alien races who are *alien*, in appearance, psychology and culture. And it's not just the aliens; Niven shows how human cultures have diverged during periods of colonial isolation, developing different moral codes.
They're all hard sf, but Niven is one of the authors who can populate his hard sf setting with plausible characters who feel like real people. There's also some thoughtful discussion of moral problems in a couple of the stories.
This collection is nearly forty years old as I write this, and it shows--there have been advances in technology that Niven didn't forsee, making for some oddly backwards technology in the stories. But science fiction isn't about predicting the future; it's speculation about possible futures and the people living in them. Good sf lasts even when it's overtaken by events in real life, and these stories haven't been harmed by the passage of time since they were written.
All in all, a well-rounded collection that shows what can be achieved with the short form in science fiction.
June 12, 2006 | |
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