[book_talk] book review - Niven and Lerner
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- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:40:29 -0800
_Fleet of Worlds_
by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
narrated by Tom Weiner
The Citizens of Hearth, on becoming aware of the fact their sun was
going supernova, chose to take their chosen planets and flee the wave
of lethal radiation that would scour life from all worlds in its path.
While seeking to add still another planet to their cluster of worlds,
they were hailed by a passing colony ship from Earth, and responded by
taking control of the ship, imprisoning its small crew, and using its
store of embryos to provide workers on one of their nature preserve
planets where grain for the Citizens of Hearth was produced.
Nessus, who serves as a scout for the Concordance that governs Hearth
and its companion Fleet of Worlds, befriends the three Colonists who it
is hoped will be the first humans to serve on scouting missions to
assure that the way ahead is safe for those who dwell on Hearth and its
companion planets, while Nessus himself alternates service as a scout
and an agent working to further Hearth's agenda at the expense of
Earth. But when the Colonists begin to realize that the Citizens
haven't been exactly honest in their dealings with the Colonists and
the original colony ship from which their ancestors were "rescued" is
found not drifting in space as they'd been told but instead enclosed in
a Citizen starship, all deals between the Citizens and the Colonists
are off. Can Nessus keep his human friends from being assassinated and
still protect the Fleet of Worlds from wild Humans from Earth, eager to
find out where Earth's scout ships have been disappearing to?
I read and reviewed "Betrayer of Worlds," book four of this series, a
couple of months ago. So, back I went to Audible to find those books
that led up to that book. An interesting premise, and I find the
Citizens, known to Earthmen as Puppeteers, to be a most fascinating
race. Weiner is a good choice as narrator for the series, and I intend
to get books two and three as soon as I can afford them!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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