The Patchwork Girl

Gil “the ARM” Hamilton, one of Larry Niven’s most intriguing characters, narrates this science fiction mystery novel.  Humanity has divided into 3 groups: the Belters from the asteroids, “lunies” on the Moon and “flatlanders” from Earth.  20 years after a former convocation, Gil Hamilton, with the United Nations police force, travels to the moon to attend a new meeting to establish or change existing laws. When an Earth woman and Gil’s friend is arrested for attempted murder and faces the penalty of death and the harvesting of her organs, as is practiced in particularly harsh fashion on the Moon, Gil works to uncover the truth before she suffers death and dismemberment.  There are powerful people on the Moon who will do anything to stop him.  A masterful novel by one of science fiction’s greatest writers.


With a new introduction by the Author.


"His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive.  Niven is a true master!"

- Frederik Pohl

 

"Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction."

- Mike Resnick

 

"Our premier hard SF writer."

- The Baltimore Sun

 

"Niven...lifts the reader far from the conventional world -- and does it with dash."

- The Los Angeles Times

 

"Niven...juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift." 

- Charles Sheffield

 

"In creating a geologic world and in the interactions between humans and aliens, Niven is superb."

- Boston Sunday Globe

 

"One of the genre's most prolific and accessible talents."

- Library Journal


"The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can."

- Tom Clancy


About Larry Niven:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.


In 2015, Larry Niven received the Grand Master Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.