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Beowulf's Children Larry Niven

Beowulf's Children By Larry Niven

Beowulf's Children by Larry Niven


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Summary

On Tau Ceti Four, the descendants of the original two hundred colonists fight to keep control of a land populated with beasts known as grendels.

Beowulf's Children Summary

Beowulf's Children by Larry Niven

"Once upon a long, long time ago, our parents and grandparents left a place called Earth. They traveled across the stars in a ship called Geographic to find paradise." Camelot is an island paradise for some perhaps, but not for us. There dwell monsters. These huge hulking inhabitants, called Grendels, bring only death and destruction to humankind. That we survived those first battles at all is a miracle. That we came to prosper is, for those who endured those awful times, beyond comprehension. Amazingly enough, Camelot, for most, will come to be the paradise we dreamed of. But a new generation is growing up, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars. Setting out for the mainland, these rebellious men and women are bent on exploration, ready to fight any Grendels that get in their way, indifferent to their parents' past. On the mainland called Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the young people will learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart. For Avalon does not give up her secrets easily, and some of those mysteries are wicked as sin, blacker than the grave.

Beowulf's Children Reviews

"The best in the field."--Tom Clancy
"Don't miss this one."--"Starlog"
"The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film...."--"The Washington Times"

"The best in the field."--Tom Clancy

"Don't miss this one."--"Starlog"

"The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film...."--"The Washington Times"

The best in the field. "Tom Clancy"

Don't miss this one. "Starlog"

The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In "The Legacy of Heorot" they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes "Aliens" look like a Disney nature film.... "The Washington Times""


"The best in the field." --Tom Clancy

"Don't miss this one." --Starlog

"The team of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is one the best in science fiction....In The Legacy of Heorot they are joined by Steven Barnes for a tale of space conquest that makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film...." --The Washington Times

About Larry Niven

Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Steven Barnes began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words. His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer. He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as the host of the world's longest-running science fiction radio show, Hour 25. Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jeery Pournelle and Steven Barnes was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017) was an essayist, journalist, and science fiction author. He had advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science. As a science fiction author, he is best known for his many collaborations with Larry Niven, including Inferno, Beowulf's Children and The Mote in God's Eye.

Pournelle was the first ever winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best new Writer in 1973.

Additional information

CIN0812524969G
9780812524963
0812524969
Beowulf's Children by Larry Niven
Used - Good
Paperback
St Martin's Press
1998-12-31
493
N/A
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