In this third pre-quel to Larry Niven’s Ringworld, the Fleet of Worlds is once again in danger – this time from a horde of aliens fleeing the disaster at the center of the galaxy. This action packed novel set in Niven’s Known Space universe, follows the migration of the Pak (of which humans were descended …
Larry Niven is back again in the Ringworld universe with a series of four pre-quels to the classic sci-fi epic Ringworld. This time, rather than set the story in the huge ring like orbiting structure created by aliens, Niven and Lerner build the back story about the Puppeteers – a race of cowardly horse like …
Surface Detail is a new book set in Iain Bank’s Culture, a high tech society in which poverty and disease has been eliminated, much like the Federation in Star Trek, but at a much higher technological level. The society is run by Artificial Intelligences called ‘Minds’ and has been fleshed out in several earlier books …
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