- Life on other planets, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, American literature
Life in a colony on a newly settled planet.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- Orbit, Book Sales, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789990957273
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“"CADZIE! WAIT UP!" Cadmann Weyland chuckled to himself and dug his heels into the slope, slowing his descent.”
**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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