Larry Niven
Author
Series
Heorot series volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the...
Author
Series
Ringworld series prequels volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the chain of supernovas that devastated the universe, the Puppeteers have struggled badly. Their human slaves have rebelled, the Pak are pressing onward, and a new crisis looms. Will the Fleet survive?
Author
Series
Ringworld series prequels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller represents Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies--real and imagined. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? Yet he may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's...
Author
Series
Ringworld series prequels volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
6) Shipstar
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is...
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 1
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
8) Glorious
Author
Series
Bowl of Heaven volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.