OT: Hard SF Niven (was "Memorare" hardcover)

Matthew King · 07 Dec 2007, 18:22 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:22:16 -0600
Subject: (urth) OT:  Hard SF Niven (was "Memorare" hardcover)
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

>> (Will
>> anyone else admit to having read Niven?)
>
> Sure thing. But, he's not truly a hard SF writer, though he puts on  
> such
> a good show that most people don't notice he's swept the fossil record
> under the rug, for example.

Do you mean the Protector-breeder origin of humans?

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