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Crashlander | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Del Rey Books,U.S.
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 12750
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345381688
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345381682
ASIN: 0345381688
Publication Date: July 1, 2003
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 great book June 29, 1998
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
read one story a night, and by the end of the year, you'll have gotten through the whole ringworld series, explored the ongoings in the core, and read the ongoing man-kzin wars... You'll read 2 stories, maybe 3 a night
The full story about Beowulf Shaeffer May 20, 1998
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This wonderful collection puts all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories into one volume, including a new story. It also tells the orgins of Louis Wu of ringworld, elaborates on Puppeteers and the fate of the galaxy. A must read for any Niven fan.
 Known Space Knowledge March 23, 1997
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
For fans of Niven's other "Known Space" novels and short stories, this Beowulf Schaeffer collection is a must. It wasn't until finishing "Crashlander" that I realized just exactly who Louis Wu is. Wu (the central character of the "Ringworld" novels) doesn't appear directly in "Crashlander," but he is mentioned in a manner that makes his origins clear. Classic work from one of the masters.
An assortment of excellent hard science fiction stories. September 11, 1996
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Beowulf Schaeffer is the recurring pilot-hero of many of Niven's "Known Space" stories, including some of his most famous, like "Neutron Star". In this volume they are collected and put in order, with a framing sequence. An indisputable aid to understanding Niven's other "known space" works, like RINGWORLD, and immense fun in its own right. Here you first meet the Puppeteers, you first find out the galaxy is exploding, you first meet the Outsiders and other aliens. (Niven does the best aliens in the biz. A few might cattily say his aliens are better than his humans.) A fascinating future presented by one of the best sf writers still writing.
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