Betrayer of Worlds
Book Four of the FLEET OF WORLDS series
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4.8 • 6 Ratings
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- £4.49
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Publisher Description
Set in Larry Niven’s Ringworld universe, this 4th Niven/Lerner collaboration opens with humans, including Louis Wu and Sigmund Ausfaller, trying to save the human colony that is part of the massive Fleet of Worlds fleeing a supernova explosion. They must contend with wily Puppeteers such as the ambitious Achilles and the semi-outcast Nessus, the murderous Pak and the newly-spacefaring Gw’oth, who have their own agenda, in their efforts to avoid warfare or annihilation by the Pak. Set about one hundred years before the opening of Larry Niven’s bestselling novel RINGWORLD.
“A fantastic science fiction novel.”
- Layers of Thought on BETRAYER OF WORLDS
“Intelligent space opera, with a twinge of nostalgia for the 1970s.”
- Critical Mass (Don Dammassa reviews) on BETRAYER OF WORLDS
“Rescues, captures, kidnappings, reluctant temporary alliances, backdoor negotiations, propaganda campaigns, bluffs and double-bluffs, alien and cross-species politics, and, of course, betrayals. Lots of betrayals ... One hopes that Niven and Lerner come up with some additional twists and turns.”
- Locus on BETRAYER OF WORLDS
“A welcomed addition to Larry Niven’s exploration and chronicles of Known Space.”
- San Francisco Book Review on BETRAYER OF WORLDS
“A powerful adventure and a ‘must’ addition to the Ringworld saga!”
- Midwest Book Review on BETRAYER OF WORLDS
“You’ll find plenty here to enjoy. There are bizarre aliens both old and new; there’s more advanced technology than you can shake a neutron star at; there are ideas to make your head spin.”
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact on DESTROYER OF WORLDS
"Fans of Niven's Known Space ...will enjoy seeing past puzzles made clear."
- Publishers Weekly on DESTROYER OF WORLDS
“Fun, fast, and full of ... remarkable aliens.”
- SFrevu on DESTROYER OF WORLDS
"A lively prequel to Niven's 1970 classic, RINGWORLD … Fans of hard SF will be well rewarded."
- Publishers Weekly on FLEET OF WORLDS
“A new Known Space book, particularly one with new information about Puppeteers and their doings behind the scenes of human history, needs recommending within the science fiction community about as much as a new Harry Potter novel does, well, anywhere. But Niven and Lerner have produced a novel that can stand on its own as well as part of the Known Space franchise.”
- Locus on FLEET OF WORLDS
"Exceptional freshness and suspense ... full of startling revelations about human and puppeteer politics."
- Booklist on FLEET OF WORLDS
“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 on JUGGLER OF WORLDS
"Niven and Lerner...adroitly expand upon familiar ground … and, at the same time, pour it into an entirely new bottle."
- Starlog on JUGGLER OF WORLDS
"Great story-telling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series."
- Orson Scott Card
for more on the authors:
LARRY NIVEN: www.larryniven.net
EDWARD M. LERNER: www.edwardmlerner.com
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fourth installment of the Ringworld prequel Fleet of Worlds series (after 2009's Destroyer of Worlds) continues to invent new crises in the path of the alien Puppeteers' flight from a cataclysmic explosion at the galactic core. Within the Fleet of Worlds, Puppeteer politics roil as the highly paranoid race deals with perceived threats from the genocidal Pak and the ambitious hyper-computing group-mind Gw'oth. The insane puppeteer Nessus asks Louis Wu (stepson of interstellar daredevil Beowulf Shaeffer) to help him suss out the Gw'oth, who are in the middle of a civil war. Meanwhile, rival Puppeteer Achilles will do anything to become Hindmost, leader of his race, even if it means causing interstellar war by secretly inciting the Gw'oth to attack. There's a clear feeling of the authors marking time as they maneuver pawns into place for the next installment of this increasingly unwieldy series.
