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Title: Protector by Larry Niven ISBN: 0-345-35312-9 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 September, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (32 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Essential Niven
Comment: Imagine a race of beings that:
Are so hyper-intelligent that they never invented computers. It never occured to them to devise a machine to help them think.
Abandoned interstellar travel because it was useless. Except to kill off a few close-by competitive races. And they invented interstellar travel w/o computers, remember.
Are very long-lived. Maybe immortal. They don't grow old since they always die a violent death.
Are amazingly strong with lightning-quick reflexes.
Are Very warlike.
Are EXTREME XENOPHOBES.
And you have to fight them. Actually, this would be a good basis for another Niven book. But Protector does a great job of introducing this race to his future history. The middle third of the story is rather slow, but it picks up again for the final third. Great book. And essential to understand, not just the one or two books that other have mentioned (giving away part of the plot for those books)but the place of Humanity in the Known Space Universe.
A Protector could eat a Klingon for lunch. And wouldn't even enjoy it. A Must Read for the space-loving scifi fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: all-time favorite
Comment: I read all of Niven, and Protector isn't just my favorite of his works, it's my all-time favorite book. Through the Protectors' actions, Niven did a great job convincing the reader that Protectors are hyper-intelligent beings. It's one thing to simply label an alien race "hyper-intelligent" and endow it with magical technology. But Protector brings that to life with descriptive narratives of incredible action, and a carefully thought out plot.
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic Larry Niven
Comment: This story, set early in the "Known Space" period, is an important part of Larry Niven's future universe, full of his accustomed ingenuity in both the plots and the science. The Protectors don't fit quite comfortably into the "Known Space" Universe, and have raised some problems later, for example in the famous "Man-Kzin Wars," where the "Known Space" universe has been shared by other writers, including Poul Anderson, Jerry Pournelle, SM Stirling and Hal Colebatch, but the story is fine space opera and entertainment, and has a genuine sense of strangeness and wonder that all too often is lacking from contemporary SF.
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Title: Three Books of Known Space by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345404483 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345334302 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ringworld by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345333926 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345412966 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A World Out of Time by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345336968 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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