false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171467210m/100344.jpg 100344 11 Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...<br><br>Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first...<br><br>He was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time. 2576385 1973 Protector total:719|5:174|4:308|3:206|2:29|1:2| 719 2780 892 35 2 0 false false Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Tue Apr 28 12:06:13 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:10:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 03 08:07:58 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 23 09:27:09 -0700 2009
Still on a Niven Known Space kick.

PROTECTOR delves into the Known Space "Ringworld universe" of Larry Niven from the Pak/Protector point of view. Clearly, this is an expanded novella, one of the slimmer Known Space books. It does contain some big ide...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Sat Dec 20 21:35:49 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 02 06:20:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 28 14:58:27 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 15:00:50 -0700 2007 alien aliens.

Take all the features of human senescence: wrinkled, leathery skin, teeth and hair falling out, heart failure, joints swollen from over-use. Now imagine that all of thes...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:47:05 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:50:55 -0700 2009 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress). Niven somehow makes a very unlikely story of human origins perfectly plausible, and a seven-year-long space battle against unseen enemies utterly riveting. I've read this bo...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Dec 13 13:59:34 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 14:06:42 -0800 2008
I had a hard time following this story, and only read it because Protectors where involved in the Ringworld Engineers novel.

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Larry Niven had a streak where he wrote some truly bad ass science fiction. His later stuff isn't as fun - somewhere along the way he stopped be...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Wed Mar 25 19:11:02 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 19:40:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Sat Aug 15 23:20:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 23:49:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 14:25:58 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 14:27:25 -0800 2008
Good book, especially if you like the Ringworld universe.]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 04 20:37:41 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 20:39:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 03:30:26 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 03:33:32 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 10:48:06 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 17:42:42 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 19:22:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 19:23:40 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 22:06:15 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 22:08:06 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Aug 21 18:30:13 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 18:30:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 08 05:26:41 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 05:26:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 11:32:17 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:32:17 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Sat Aug 01 21:25:28 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 21:30:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 19:45:17 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 19:45:26 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=100344