
World of Ptavvs
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Narrated by:
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Bradford Hastings
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By:
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Larry Niven
Nothing quite prepared telepath Larry Greenberg for mind-to-mind contact with an alien. In the interest of science, Larry tapped the mind of Kzanol - and that was his first mistake.
Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and Larry knew everything he was thinking. Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets - and the planet Kzanol had in mind was Earth!
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My only problem is that Niven thought Dolphins had a moral code. I am sorry to say I read that and I choked on my tea because now we know Dolphins are monsters.
Larry Niven is amazing
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Very Imaginative - AKA Niven
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For a relatively short tale, Niven throws in everything, but the kitchen sink. Stasis fields are almost treated as a throwaway. Telepathy is advanced with ongoing communications with dolphins. Solar system expansion is commonplace with an active economic exploitation of the asteroid belt that has resulted in a Cold war sort of détente between the belters and Earth. Then there's the interesting suggestion that Pluto is a former moon of Neptune. While the existence of a previous intelligent alien race running the galaxy 1.5 billion years ago is not novel, Niven has Earth used for food production which after their overthrow and dissolution of their galactic empire, life as we know it developed.
The narration is well done with good character distinction and reasonable pacing.
We're all just Ptavvs on this bus
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A little confusing at times.
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While not bad, the book is slow and is only really interesting when playing around with its handful of, admittedly, unique concepts. Since it is so short it is definitely worth a listen if you are a Niven fan, or just need a casual Sci Fi book to burn through, but this really isn’t his best work.
Unique Premise, Slow Execution.
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missing something...
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loved it
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A decent listen
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1963? could have been written lat week!
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Where it all began
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