
Fleet of Worlds
200 Years Before the Discovery of the Ringworld
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Tom Weiner
Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from.
A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core has unleashed a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them.
Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path - and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds.
©2007 Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"For three and a half decades, nobody's done it better than Larry Niven." (Steven Barnes)
"Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series." (Orson Scott Card)
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Sadly, this presenter's voice didn't match my expectations. While he has an impressive, "big", deep voice, his tendency to prolong the final word of every other sentence was at first distracting, then just an annoying drawl.
Or, as he might have said it, "...then just an annoying drawwwlll..."
The focus should be on the storytelling, not the storytellerrr.
Good writing; not-so-good listening
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My mother tongue is not English, but the narrator is easily intelligible.
Known Space just got very interesting
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A great story.
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Lerner and Niven craft a compelling and engaging tale that fleshes out the strange and bizarre behaviors of the Puppeteers. The detective work on the part of the humans to ferret out their own origin story is well executed. Finally, the political machinations of both the Puppeteer and Earth bureaucracy are well outlined.
The narration is well done with excellent character distinction.
Dastardly Puppeteer doings
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Hurrah!
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If you could sum up Fleet of Worlds in three words, what would they be?
Excellent Detailed UniqueWhat did you like best about this story?
The characters are very deep and they become favoritesWhich character – as performed by Tom Weiner – was your favorite?
HE does a great job with all of them.Excellent
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Fleet of worlds goes back to the beginning and brings a new thread to the rich tapestry this rich tapestry of tails and characters.
Another great peace of SF
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There is a problem I will note right off, the narrator is someone to get used to and he really trails off with the end of words like "world" is "woorllldd" and it takes a while to get used to that - also there is another major problem with the pronunciation of the name of a, well, not major character but not a minor one either since when he comes up in the 3rd book hes back in a semi-major roll - the name is "Baedeker" but in this book its pronounced as "bed-a-ker" but in the latter books its pronounced as "beta-ker" - also aliens called "Gw'oth" pronounced as "gwa-auth" becomes "guat-ta-oth" or something like that, this is stupid and if the cause was that they were pronounced incorrectly in this the first book then in the next ones where its changed it needs to be mentioned in a forward by the reader.
Now with that out of the way, the review.
This book and the ones that follow it all pretty much follow a story that although it changes it will lead up to the discovery of the ringworld which is awesome - in this book you are introduced to the characters that the story will follow for the following 3 books and learn that one of the "races" isnt what it thinks it self to be.
Humans from a colony star-ship find out the truth behind there history, even that fact that they are called "humans" - there ship was captured by the "Puppeteers" and the survivors were in gene banks and were implanted into the living humans left and the babies were told a lie when they grew up, but the truth is found out and then things get good.
Without giving much away here the humans are looking for Earth and will do anything to find it, they break into secure places and all sorts of cool things that are made easier by the fact that the puppeteers are not very good at security and easily scared so they get away with lots after they are found out.
Read this and the 3 that follow, then go on to "Ringworld - 1970" and I guarantee you wont believe that Ringworld was written in 1970 because it feels just like these books which are only a few years old
200 years before, but 42 years after its sequil
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Some confusion because of parallel occurrences in other books. (ARM participation duplicated.)
engaging, tremendous emphasis on characters loved it!!!
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