Neutron Star - Larry Niven

Neutron Star

By Larry Niven

  • Release Date: 2015-01-03
  • Genre: Sci-Fi Short Stories
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 37 Ratings

Description

Hugo Award winner "Neutron Star" and seven other groundbreaking stories and novellas by the author of RINGWORLD.  Well-known Niven characters -- including Beowulf Schaeffer, Sigmund Ausfaller, Nessus and other alien Puppeteers, the ferocious Kzinti -- appear in these pages. As Tom Clancy says, "The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can."
 
"Niven...juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift."  
- Charles Sheffield

"Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven." 
- Orson Scott Card, author of ENDER'S GAME

"The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can." 
- Tom Clancy, author of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

"His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive.  Niven is a true master!" 
- Frederik Pohl
 
"Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction." 
- Mike Resnick
 
"Our premier hard SF writer." 
- The Baltimore Sun
 
"Niven ... lifts the reader far from the conventional world -- and does it with dash." 
- The Los Angeles Times
 
"In creating a geologic world and in the interactions between humans and aliens, Niven is superb." 
- Boston Sunday Globe
 
"One of the genre's most prolific and accessible talents." 
- Library Journal

www.larryniven.net

Reviews

  • Niven at his finest

    5
    By Ronbo13
    Niven was the master of the short story, and these are some of his finest.