Niven, Larry.
Summary: A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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Summary: In the 28th Century, a war breaks out on Ringworld, a conglomeration of nations and cultures occupying 600 million miles of space. The hero is Louis Wu, a 200-year-old human scientist attempting to mediate the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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Summary: Contains two novels, including "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring," in which the crew of the spaceship "Discipline" inexplicably abandons the craft for a life on the Smoke Ring, a gaseous envelope encircling a neutron star, where they and their descendants remain for five hundred years while the emotionless computer intelligence Kendy waits for them just outside the ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: This book collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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Summary: Presents a collection of twenty-seven short science fiction stories that were written over a period of thirty-five years, including Neutron Star, The Magic Goes Away and The Borderland of Sol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1991
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Summary: When Louis Wu returns to Ringworld as a captive of the Hindmost, he discovers the world is no longer stable, and he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who first built the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1981
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Summary: Rick Schumann builds a tavern catering to visiting aliens, an interplanetary gathering place situated in Siberia that is known as Draco Tavern, in an anthology of short fiction that includes the previously unpublished "Losing Mars."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2006
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Summary: A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: When a chain reaction of supernovae explosions at the core of the galaxy unleashes a deadly wave of radiation that will sterilize the entire galaxy, the Citizens--accompanied by Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs, a descendant of human survivors--flee into the unknown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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Summary: With an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, Doctor Toby Glyer and his partner William Connors must find a way to make contact with their wayward children -- the Briareus nanites -- and save the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: 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. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? Yet he may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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Summary: Ringworld's Children returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson's puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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Summary: Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds seek a way to survive among enemies and crises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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Summary: Like Earth, the space colony of Destiny has its trading caravans, except on Destiny they don't deal in spices but speckles, an ingredient necessary for mental health. The hero is a member of a caravan and as the novel follows his adventures it describes the colony's unusual culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1997
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Summary: Offered a dream job escorting a teenage heir on a fabulous moon role-playing vacation, Scotty Griffin, a personal security specialist, becomes embroiled in a violent reality game involving armed terrorists, psychological tests, and a large audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVSummary: A must have, one of a kind, definitive space opera anthology with 15 new stories by top contemporary authors in top franchises as well as classic genre defining tales dating back over 60 plus years. With an introductory essay on space opera by Grand Master Robert Silverberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2017
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Summary: A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012