From Publishers WeeklyNiven, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and Lerner (Probe) offer a lively prequel to Niven's 1970 classic, Ringworld. It's 2650, some 500 years after the human colony ship Long Pass was captured by Citizens, those paranoid, two-headed beings better known as Puppeteers from the Fleet of Worlds. The Citizens of the Concordance have bred and nurtured successive generations of human Colonists from the Long Pass's crew and embryo banks, while lying about their origins, telling stories about an abandoned colony ship adrift in space. When a team of Colonist explorers led by Citizen Nessus to study intelligent life on an ice-covered world also uncovers evidence that the Concordance has lied about the past, they're determined to find the truth. Meanwhile, Concordance Citizens learn that the ruling Conservative policymakers have mishandled secret contacts with Earth and endangered the Fleet. Fans of hard SF will be well rewarded. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistNiven's latest foray into Known Space, his favorite imaginary universe, revisits the domain of the puppeteers, the perpetually nervous, two-headed extraterrestrials featured in his Ringworld series. In this collaboration with the author of Moonstruck (2005), Niven steps back a few centuries before Ringworld's discovery to witness the puppeteers' flight from a lethal explosion at the galactic core. To safeguard his species' fleet of migrating worlds from hostile forces, a veteran puppeteer starship pilot enlists an unlikely trio of human scientists for scouting missions ahead of the fleet's path. Raised from embryos apparently discovered on a derelict starship, the humans have known only servitude and a limited culture carefully tailored by their alien hosts. Yet a chance discovery on one of their space treks slices through a web of puppeteer lies and provokes rebellion when the humans learn their true home may be waiting for them on Earth. Lerner may be responsible for the exceptional freshness and suspense of this further chapter of Known Space lore, full of startling revelations about human and puppeteer politics. Hays, Carl

Fleet of Worlds: 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld (Known Space)

Fleet of worlds : book 1

Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Tor Science Fiction

Forge Books

1st mass mkt. ed., New York, USA, New York State, 2008

Fleet of Worlds, 1st mass mkt. ed, New York, 2008

1st mass market edition, New York, 2008

United States, United States of America

1st, 2008-08-26

"A Tom Doherty Associates book" -- t.p.

topic: Life on other planets

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) PROLOGUE Earth date: 2197
2. (p2) EXILE Earth date: 2650
2.1. (p3) SECTION 1
2.2. (p4) SECTION 2
2.3. (p5) SECTION 3
2.4. (p6) SECTION 4
2.5. (p7) SECTION 5
2.6. (p8) SECTION 6
2.7. (p9) SECTION 7
3. (p10) QUEST Earth date: 2650
3.1. (p11) SECTION 8
3.2. (p12) SECTION 9
3.3. (p13) SECTION 10
3.4. (p14) SECTION 11
3.5. (p15) SECTION 12
3.6. (p16) SECTION 13
3.7. (p17) SECTION 14
3.8. (p18) SECTION 15
3.9. (p19) SECTION 16
3.10. (p20) SECTION 17
3.11. (p21) SECTION 18
3.12. (p22) SECTION 19
3.13. (p23) SECTION 20
4. (p24) REBIRTH Earth date: 2650
4.1. (p25) SECTION 21
4.2. (p26) SECTION 22
4.3. (p27) SECTION 23
4.4. (p28) SECTION 24
4.5. (p29) SECTION 25
4.6. (p30) SECTION 26
4.7. (p31) SECTION 27
4.8. (p32) SECTION 28
4.9. (p33) SECTION 29
4.10. (p34) SECTION 30
4.11. (p35) SECTION 31
4.12. (p36) SECTION 32
4.13. (p37) SECTION 33
4.14. (p38) SECTION 34
4.15. (p39) SECTION 35
4.16. (p40) SECTION 36
4.17. (p41) SECTION 37
4.18. (p42) SECTION 38
5. (p43) ODYSSEY Earth date: 2652
5.1. (p44) SECTION 39
5.2. (p45) SECTION 40
5.3. (p46) SECTION 41
5.4. (p47) SECTION 42
6. (p48) CHAPTER 1
7. (p49) CHAPTER 2

theme: Life on other planets

Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten is among the best and the brightest of the humans. she gratefully serves the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying Starship, gave them a home world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core unleashes a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens flee, taking their planets, the fleet of Worlds, with them.
Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the fleet's path and uncover long hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds.

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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