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A Gift from Earth
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans - it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow - under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Human story in sci-fi setting
- By Razter on 11-11-19
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Protector
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 245
Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission was to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before.
Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days, and Brennan figured to meet that ship first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My all time favorite
- By JerryLStarr on 07-21-16
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The Ringworld Throne
- The Ringworld Series, Book 3
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 805
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 731
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Story4 out of 5 stars 738
Come back to the Ringworld - the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written.
The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have stopped at the second book.
- By Aerindel on 09-06-12
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Fate of Worlds
- Return from the Ringworld
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 492
For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs - everyone knows that they are cowards. But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fitting end to a great story from 42 years ago
- By Colin on 04-01-13
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A World Out of Time
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,025
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,039
After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
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Destroyer of Worlds
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 525
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 356
The newly liberated humans of the Fleet of Worlds and Sigmund Ausfaller, who had been transported by the Puppeteers from Earth to the Fleet, must contend not only with the sly Puppeteers but also the threat of the Pak, a very smart and utterly ruthless species who are fleeing the exploding galactic core in an armada of ships at near light speed. The Pak are headed towards the Fleet of Worlds, having destroyed entire planets in their wake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful story in Known Space
- By Rob on 12-11-09
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A Gift from Earth
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans - it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow - under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Human story in sci-fi setting
- By Razter on 11-11-19
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Protector
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 245
Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission was to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before.
Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days, and Brennan figured to meet that ship first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My all time favorite
- By JerryLStarr on 07-21-16
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The Ringworld Throne
- The Ringworld Series, Book 3
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 805
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 731
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Story4 out of 5 stars 738
Come back to the Ringworld - the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written.
The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have stopped at the second book.
- By Aerindel on 09-06-12
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Fate of Worlds
- Return from the Ringworld
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 537
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 492
For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs - everyone knows that they are cowards. But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fitting end to a great story from 42 years ago
- By Colin on 04-01-13
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A World Out of Time
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,025
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,039
After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee Corbell awoke in someone else’s body and under threat of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell bided his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Do you know how people get old?
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-13-12
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Destroyer of Worlds
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 525
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 356
The newly liberated humans of the Fleet of Worlds and Sigmund Ausfaller, who had been transported by the Puppeteers from Earth to the Fleet, must contend not only with the sly Puppeteers but also the threat of the Pak, a very smart and utterly ruthless species who are fleeing the exploding galactic core in an armada of ships at near light speed. The Pak are headed towards the Fleet of Worlds, having destroyed entire planets in their wake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful story in Known Space
- By Rob on 12-11-09
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Fleet of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 725
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 486
Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at Human-Puppeteer (Citizen) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel. Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not bad...
- By G. Parish on 05-02-16
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Betrayer of Worlds
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 399
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 326
Since fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have - just barely - survived one crisis after another: the rebellion of their human slaves, the relentless questing of the species of Known Space, the spectacular rise of the starfishlike Gw'oth, the onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Now fresh disaster looms, as though past crises have returned and converged. Who can possibly save the Fleet this time?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Different voices. Better voices...
- By Mark on 01-27-15
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The Ringworld Engineers
- The Ringworld Series, Book 2
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,732
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,561
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,563
It’s been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakertoAnimals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, Wrong Narrator. Way Wrong.
- By Kevin der Kinderen on 04-16-13
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Ringworld's Children
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 919
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 636
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 640
The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3-million-times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Distracting narration.
- By Wayne K. Werner on 08-25-12
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Juggler of Worlds
- 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
- By: Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 448
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 327
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and imaginary, and all foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
But Sigmund may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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boring rewrite
- By John on 02-25-09
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Ringworld
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,588
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,945
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,972
Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still Worth Listening 40 Years Later!
- By Tall Guy on 12-03-13
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The Legacy of Heorot
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 397
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Story4 out of 5 stars 392
Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise - until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- By Thomas on 12-05-12
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The Mote in God's Eye
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,835
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5,029
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,071
The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great read!
- By J. Rhoderick on 02-12-10
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The Gripping Hand
- By: Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,575
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,422
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award-winning authors of such best sellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered - a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function: Master, Mediator, Engineer, Warrior.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye"
- By Ken on 01-14-13
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The Integral Trees
- The State, Book 2
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline were prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided - and secretly spied upon - by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. What they weren’t prepared for, however, was the Smoke Ring - an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free fall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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entertaining
- By Lena K Schroeder on 05-26-18
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The Smoke Ring
- The State Series, Book 3
- By: Larry Niven
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remember their Earth roots or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship - until Kendy initiates contact once more. Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knows that Kendy is still watching and waiting. Then, when the Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers, they learn for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump.
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3 out of 5 stars
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probably the weakest story in the series.
- By Mac on 08-06-18
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Beowulf's Children
- By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 279
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Story4 out of 5 stars 248
A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out to explore the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart. Avalon does not give up her secrets easily, and some of those mysteries are wicked as sin and blacker than the grave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing sequel
- By J. Williams on 11-06-17
Publisher's Summary
Nothing quite prepared telepath Larry Greenberg for mind-to-mind contact with an alien. In the interest of science, Larry tapped the mind of Kzanol - and that was his first mistake.
Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and Larry knew everything he was thinking. Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets - and the planet Kzanol had in mind was Earth!
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