Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces, and fantasy novels including the Magic Goes Away series. Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
Edward M. Lerner has degrees in physics and computer science, a background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing science fiction full-time. His books include Probe, Moonstruck, and the collection Creative Destruction. Fleet of Worlds was his first collaboration with Larry Niven. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Ruth.
"Niven and Lerner...clearly enjoy revisiting aliens familiar from
Niven's menagerie while spinning an elaborate tale of
interplanetary intrigue. Their many fans will, too."--"Booklist
""Niven and Lerner...adroitly expand upon familiar ground...and, at
the same time, pour it into an entirely new bottle."--"Starlog""A
lively prequel to Niven's 1970 classic, "Ringworld," . . . Fans of
hard SF will be well rewarded."--"Publishers Weekly" on "Fleet of
Worlds""" "Exceptional freshness and suspense . . . full of
startling revelations about human and puppeteer
politics."--"Booklist "on "Fleet of Worlds""" "A far-future SF
mystery/adventure set two centuries before the discovery of the
Ringworld by humans. . . . . Intriguing human and alien characters
and lucid scientific detail."--"Library Journal" on "Fleet of
Worlds"
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