Fate of Worlds
Return from the Ringworld

Suddenly every element in the planetary early-warning array clamors in unison. Every watch stander in the planetary defense center jolts to full alertness to stare at their consoles. To gape at the impossible. This novel represents, to me, the culmination of a Science Fiction journey that started deca......more

I'm a little conflicted with this one. The cover proclaims it "The Explosive Finale to the Ringworld -and- the Fleet of Worlds Series," so my expectations were were probably unrealistically grandiose. I thought the authors did a good job in tying the two sequences together, and corrected some possib......more

I'm not sure about that 4-star rating. I may be feeling generous because I got one more dose of Known Space. It's a story of large reach, as it needs to be to more-or-less wrap up two long threads. It required some shortcuts, but I'm prepared to allow that so the story can be made to work. I was i......more

This is an awesome book. You don't need to read the whole series, but the flashbacks in this one are insufficient to allow for full appreciation of Niven's complex universe. In the past, I've found Niven to be a slow but interesting read both in terms of the science (he writes currently accurate sci......more

Ambitious is an understatement: the finale to both the Ringworld series and the Fleet of Worlds series, and indeed of the entire Known Space saga begun with 1966's "Neutron Star"! Forty-six years of real life and a few billion years of fictional history in the making -- so I suppose I can forgive Ni......more