“Profound and exhilarating.”-Maurice Broaddus, author of The Knights of Breton Court “Brilliant, surprising, and devastating.”-David Mack 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.’ And well it might be.”- Milwaukee Journal on Janissaries The Best of the Genre.”- The New York Times “Jerry Pournelle's trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics.”-David Drake “Jerry Pournelle is one of science fiction’s greatest storytellers.”-Poul Anderson “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 “Our premier hard SF writer.”- The Baltimore Sun

“Larry Niven’s RINGWORLD remains one of the all-time classic travelogues of science fiction - a new and amazing world and fantastic companions.”-Greg Bear “Possibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.”-Robert A. “Panoramic SF adventure at its best.”- Library Journal As one might suspect Beowulf's Children is seamless. “Few writers have a finer pedigree than those here. “Spine-tingling ecological tale of terror.”- Locus makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film.”- The Washington Post “Well written, action-packed, and tension filled. the ultimate combination of imagination and realism.”-Tom Clancy may be the best thing any of those authors has written.”- The Denver Post “Page-turning action and suspense, good characterization and convincing setting. In order to defeat this alien enemy, they must reevaluate everything they think they know about Avalon, and uncover the planet’s dark secrets.

Soon an implacable predator stalks them, picking them off one by one. And so they set about planting and building.īut their very presence has upset the ecology of Avalon. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet light-years from Earth. BOOK ONE IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES

The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven