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Science Fiction satire/adventure published in 1991 novel by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. Near future/alternate future in which anti-technology forces control Earth, while a struggling colony survives in orbital space and on the Moon. Science fiction fans on Earth work to save downed astronauts.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Larry Niven
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 394
- Publisher
- Pan, MACMILLAN, Baen
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671720520
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“High over the northern hemisphere the scoopship's hull began to sing.”
**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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