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If you've read Larry Niven's Tales of Known Space, then you already know most of the events that occur in this book.

But you never saw them from the perspective of Sigmund Ausfaller or Nessus before. And that's the twist here. This book retells an awful lot of things you thought you already knew about, and exposes the sides you didn't know about. There are connections you probably never suspected. WHY was Julian Forward playing pirate on the outskirts of Sol System? WHY did Carlos Wu develop his super-autodoc? How ELSE can you destroy a General Products hull? Well, you'll find out these things, and many more.

After you've read this book, you will know Sigmund Ausfaller, and you will understand a lot more about the ARM, and the Birthright Lotteries, and ...
Well. But that would be telling.

Go read.


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Juggler of Worlds 200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld Edward M Lerner Larry Niven 9780765318268 Books Reviews

This volume of the Fleet of Worlds series for the most part follows both the Puppeteers and Sigmond Ausfaller during stories told elsewhere in Niven's Known Space timeline (which were originally told from another character's point of view.). So there's not a lot new here, other than to help tie down loose ends and fill gaps. But it serves to set the stage for book three of the series, and provides insight into some of those other stories. It's a good read, but not the best of the series.
I first stumbled over Larry Niven's fiction in the 70s when I was... um... much younger than I am now. His Known Space novels and stories spoke to me as teenager who truly expected to be living in space by now. So... that didn't work out... but having recommend the Fleet of World Series brought back that nostalgia!

Juggler has everything that Known Space fans love swashbuckling but flawed heroes, aliens that are at once exotic and understandable and enough scientific plausibility to make you think that one day we might be exploring the galaxy. As a long lost Niven fan, I also enjoyed the Easter Eggs the author left for those of us who spent our summer vacations reading his books and stories.

I recommend this book to all those old Known Spacers and anyone who likes his or her space opera with realism and optimism.
There comes a time in the career of a Science Fiction writer when they start winding down. They tie up loose ends, they mine the tailings of their previous works, they update their vision to include new real-world technologies, and (sometimes) they find an heir to take over their universe. Isaac Asimov did a spectacular job in the end-tying department, Anne McCaffrey is apparently planning a dynasty, and Arthur C. Clark's swan song was, frankly, painful to read (but that's another review). This book is such a work.

The book is part of a threesome - Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, and the as-yet-unreleased Destroyer of Worlds. In it, we find Nessus, a long-time character in Niven's other books (here greatly expanded in depth), Simon Ausfaller, Beowulf Shaeffer, and a host of other well- and lesser-knowns. Newbies to Niven's work won't be totally lost, but will miss some of the more subtle craftmanship in the storytelling - the authors' multiple nods to previous plotlines is admirable.

The story and writing here is a bit choppy. Sometimes, one gets the sense that a bunch of half-finished short stories were haphazardly glued together, and, in one twist, a last-minute deus ex machina could have been much better integrated much earlier in the timeline. However, the characters are well explored, the plot isn't too absurd, and the writing is, for lack of a better term, still "Nivenesque".

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, warts and all. I eagerly await the last installment of the triad. That Niven is breaking in a new partner is clear. That this is and will be a fruitful collaboration is also.
This is a return to Larry Niven's Known Space universe that he wrote so much about in the 60's and 70's. It aims to fill in some the gap between the adventures of Beowulf Schaeffer and Louis Wu's exploration of Ringworld about 200 years later. This book is the first in a trilogy that is examining that timeframe.

I'd say the main two characters are Sigmund Ausfaller (an ARM - think Homeland Security zealot of the UN) and our old friend, Nessus the Puppeteer. However, we also see quite a few of the old standbys from Known Space, including Beowulf Schaeffer, Carlos Wu, and the flatlander called Elephant.

Getting to see some additional adventures of these folks was nice, but like I said, it was a grind to get through this book. Why? For starters, it's a little on the long side, about 450 pages in print, and secondly, remember all those familiar characters? Well, we see them going through the same old adventures Niven wrote about back in the 60's and 70's as short stories.

It's not a straight text drop-in or anything. Rather, it's more of a "meanwhile, back at the ranch" thing, and I've got to tell you, it's boring back at the ranch, especially when you already know what's happening out with those neutron rustlers. It was like "see that really exciting thing over there? Well, don't look at it. Nope, we're gonna stay right here and talk about it afterwards."

I can see that given how the plot went, this was somewhat necessary, but it still felt very, very boring. I almost gave up on it twice, and every time I thought that surely we had gotten though all the old stories, it turned out that no, there was still one or two more that I'd forgotten about.

Anyway, finally about two-thirds of the way through the book we get into really new material instead of life back at the ranch. That part was pretty good, and it was nice seeing what happened to some of the characters as well as a few more reveals about the Known Space universe.

Probably the highest praise I can give it was that it managed to revisit all those old stories without doing any obvious retcons. This lack of retcons is about the only reason I'm considering reading the rest of the trilogy. I figure that we're past all the retellings by now, so the second and third books should be all new material. But if they start messing with Louis or the Ringworld, I'll try to find a -friendly version of throwing the book against the wall.
If you've read Larry Niven's Tales of Known Space, then you already know most of the events that occur in this book.

But you never saw them from the perspective of Sigmund Ausfaller or Nessus before. And that's the twist here. This book retells an awful lot of things you thought you already knew about, and exposes the sides you didn't know about. There are connections you probably never suspected. WHY was Julian Forward playing pirate on the outskirts of Sol System? WHY did Carlos Wu develop his super-autodoc? How ELSE can you destroy a General Products hull? Well, you'll find out these things, and many more.

After you've read this book, you will know Sigmund Ausfaller, and you will understand a lot more about the ARM, and the Birthright Lotteries, and ...
Well. But that would be telling.

Go read.