' As with most of the 'Known Space' stories, this is a great premise even if the execution is a little inelegant. Probably one of the best science fiction book that I have ever read. ' Useful story, for Niven's Known Space universe, but the actual book wasn't very compelling to me. My only complaint is that the martians felt tacked on and completely unnecessary to the story. This led me to reading other novels by Larry Niven, most of which were a good blend of science, science fiction, and good story telling. But I found that I just could not put it down. ' This was one of the more challenging books that I read as a teenage scifi fan.

' Not as good as Asimov, but interesting and good on the detail. Probably most interesting if you've read the Ringworld or other Known Space books, but will stand on its own.

' Just love the idea that humans are meant to undergo a metamorphosis and how it neatly fits in with human physiology after age 35 or so.

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Needless to say I was very pleasantly surprised! The narration easily adjusts itself in my mind to the countless readings I've done of the book over the years, and really brings it to life! Well done!' It was my first purchase from them, and I didn't know what to expect. But my new love is audiobooks in my earbugs while I work, so I purchased a copy from. I have read more than a couple paperbacks to death over the years, and now have a kindle version which should last longer. Too bad Mankind is so frightfully independent! Protector is perhaps my favorite book in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

' Phssthpok the Pak was by any definition an epic hero. He was never seen again-at least not by those alive at the time. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days, and Brennan figured to meet that ship first. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. His mission was to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before.īrennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. This Hugo-nominated work is a classic of Niven’s Known Space saga.

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