Can anyone recall the title?

[Art]

Greetings,
I am trying to recall the title of a book I read years ago that I want to re-read. This happens alot (until I started using Goodreads !). The book involves an interstellar, space-faring human race. The humans were interacting with several species of e.t.'s and then discovered another that lived under a thick ice cap on a water world. This e.t. race had no real concept of the universe or much outside the ice but had intelligence and some sense of technology. The humans boot-strapped this race into interstellar capability. The interaction between humans and these e.t.'s was not the entire basis of the book. Ring a bell anyone?

Thanks for helping!

[Sarah]

Harry Potter and the Ice Trolls? hehe, just kidding. I don't think I've read the book you're talking about, but I just wanted to add that I hate it when that happens to me. I've probably forgotten more titles at this point than I can remember. If I come across any synopses with your description, I'll let ya know ;)

[Mark]

Hey that sounds like fleet of worlds by larry niven and edward learner

[Art]

Yes! That's it! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now if we could just get them to write three more books for the series...

[Steve]

The problem is that Niven is pushing 70 or more and I believe that he is cautious about sharing a universe which he has carefully developed with too many newbies. I wouldn't mind reading like a anthology of short stories about other races on the Ringworld

[Mark]

Fleet of Worlds
Juggler of Worlds
Destroyer of Worlds
Betrayer of Worlds
Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld

The 5 books they have written together, if you are interested in the complete saga.


Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children

Ringworld Engineers is all about the other races on the ringworld... risathra?

[Larry]

niven is in his 70s? Geez!

[Steve]

Thanks for info, I've never seen Fate of Worlds, but maybe not in paperback yet.

[Steve]

Larry wrote: "niven is in his 70s? Geez!"

yeah, I used Google to do a dbl and triple check. The total wordage with the Worlds series and has got to be close to two million so he's paid his dues. i started reading him in my teens, my high school days when he was struggling writer.