/lit/ - Literature

Curious person turned Larry Niven fanboy.

His characters are sometimes unlikeable and his story logic is stretching it a bit. Something about his stories I just like.

Started with being curious about Ringworld. Read all 4 books. Louis Wu has fucked more Aliens than Kirk will ever dream of.

Since then I've read most of his known space stuff.

Protector
Crash Lander
Destiny's Road

Did some A.C. Clark 2001. Was great up till the very last page. Ending with baby and earth left me pissed and makes the movie better.

Oxford Big book of Science Fiction Short Stories is and educational book. Starts with a eerie short by H.G. Wells Called the Land Ironclad 1906, Then ends with something from Brin in 1993. Books leads me to believe that the closer books got to the 80 and 90s, the more bogged is social minutiae bull they got.

Last Sci-Fi book I read was Bowl of Heaven by Niven and some other guy. Old bastard better not die before his finishes the other books for it.

Just got done Reading 'The Bowl of Heaven'

As any work Niven is involved in, I thought it did great on explaining how unknowable alien minds are or how certain problems arise with motives and interactions between races.

Did seem to use the word 'joyous' too much. I give them a pass as cuz they's getting old.

Looked up reviews for the book to see when the next one was due and was dumbfounded by all the blasting reviews. Is this just a younger generation of readers being whiney or do you anon's think something was wrong with this book too?