"Memorare" hardcover

Is the List aware of this?: http://wyrmpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=12 Does "Memorare" remind anyone else of Niven-esque "hard" sf? (Will anyone else admit to having read Niven?)

I've read Niven. He's a good SF writer, if not the best or second best prose stylist in the World. Nice guy, too. .

I've also read a lot of Niven. I concur with the above, although I have no reason to know his nice- guy-or-notness. Adam

"(Will anyone else admit to having read Niven?)" Sure. Tons through the 80's. Known Space was one of my favorite haunts. Around the time of the third RW novel and a few other things, I lost interest. But I'll go back and visit again someday. FPK3

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?

Everything I know about Science I had to re-learn after having read Niven in my teens. :-) Fun stuff, though. And yeah, Memorare's plot and setting both have the flavor of a Niven-era SF short story, if not Niven himself. Rostrum

I did have that reaction when I read Protector: If the breeders where homo habilis, then why does homo habilis seem to share ancestory with other Terran species? However, from what I've read of Niven's, his greatest sin against scientific plausibility, in my opinion, is "luck breeding."

That in particular, yes.

The shared ancestry among primates is explained by induced mutation, but no explanation is made to connect primates with the rest of earthly life.

To be sure, that part is metafictional one-upmanship rather than an integral part of the plot. Psi powers were very popular among genre fiction at the time, and it's hard to top the power to control the author/editor/publisher.