- Government investigators, Conspiracy, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller represents Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies--real and imagined.
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- Author
- Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Science Fiction
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429951418
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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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