- Life on other planets, Fiction, Science fiction, American Science fiction
The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
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Epic, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 532
- Publisher
- Orbit, Del Rey Books, Del Rey
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780345418425
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**Laurence van Cott Niven** — known as *Larry Niven* — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated
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