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Author:	Larry Niven
Title:	Neutron Star
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
Country:	USA
Date:	Apr 1968
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	U6120
Total Editions:	3
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© 1968 by Larry Niven
Anthology of 7 stories originally published 1966 - 1967 in Worlds Of If or * Galaxy
- Neutron Star
- At the Core
- Relic of the Empire
- The Soft Weapon
- Flatlander
- The Ethics of Madness
- The Handicapped *
Ballantine Science Fiction Original
- 1st printing, Apr 1968
cover price 75c

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ppint. 13th May 2020		known space: #1: "world of ptavvs" (1966), q.v. #2: "a gift from earth" (1968), q.v. #3: "the long arm of gil hamilton" (1976), q.v. #4: "the patchwork girl" (1980), q.v. #5: "protector" (1973), q.v. #6: "ringworld" (1970), q.v. #7: "the ringworld engineers" (1979), q.v. #8: "the ringworld throne" (1996), q.v. #9: "ringworld's children" (2004), q.v. known space novella, novelette & short story collections; contents range widely in time: #C1: "neutron star" (1968) (this collection) (#6: "ringworld" (1970) is the sequel to half of these stories) though episodic, still the most coherent introduction to the ''known space'' setting #C2: "tales of known space" (1975), q.v. collects seven of the eight (less the gil the arm story) known space stories previously collected in "the shape of space" (1969), q.v., and "all the myriad ways" (1971), q.v. (larry nven's first two, non-exclusively known space collections), plus others written since, or elsewise uncollected #C3: "crashlander" (1994), q.v. the beowulf shaeffer stories from C1, episodically adding a new shaeffer story, "ghost", as a framing story, and one previously uncollected shaeffer story, "procrustes", from "bridging the galaxies" (1993), q.v., the confrancisco 51st worldcon guest of hono[u]r souvenir limited edition and trade h/cvr collection plus a series of five known space/related novels by edward m. lerner and larry niven, the fleet of worlds: 2#1: "fleet of worlds" (2007), q.v. 2#2: "juggler of worlds" (2008), q.v. 2#3: "destroyer of worlds" (2009), q.v. 2#4: "betrayer of worlds" (2010), q.v. 2#5: "fate of worlds: return from the ringworld" (2012), q.v. there is also a series of fifteen original anthologies almost entirely by other hands, the man-kzin wars. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 26th Jun 2019		reprint collection of seven novelettes and a novella first sphere books p/b edition 1973 cat# 63894 cover art uncredited, unsigned cover price 7/- (35p), australia £1.10, new zealand £1.10, south africa 85c, east africa 8/25 (so this printing should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule) (or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea) 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising probably second printing 1972 cat# 63924 cover art uncredited, possibly unsigned cover price 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising two near-identical 1972 printings, priority not known: second or thrid or fourth printing 1972 isbn -0-7221-6385-1 cover art by eddie jones (uncredited, art is signed) cover design sphere science fiction classic no.8 on orangey red ground cover price 35p, 288pp. including titles, etc, end pp. advertising fourth or thrid or second printing 1972 isbn 0-7221-6385-1 cover design sphere science fiction classic no. 8 on green ground indicia publishing history includes line stating reprinted 1972 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 1st Dec 2017		Rated 8/10 good introduction to the loose, over-all fictional universe: a story cycle of beowulf shaeffer stories set in known space, alternating with unconnected stories set against the same background telling salient parts of the known space history and introducing the major (and some minor) intelligent (sometimes doubtfully so) civilised (ditto) alien species, including the ferocious kzin, seemingly incapable of resisting any opportunity to attack (and kill) where they have a tactical advantage, even where there is naught to be gained strategically; the puppeteers, who are devout cowards to the extent that any individuals prepared to interact or even associate at close quarters with other species are at least technically mad; the grog, who don't seem to do anything - so who cannot have a use for intelligence (or can they?); and members of different colonies established by that most unreliable of species, humanity. later revised with a new beowulf shaeffer story, "ghost", presented as interconnecting and framing material, and one further, previously uncollected, story ("procrustes"), as "crashlander" (1994), q.v. beowulf shaeffer meets louis wu for the first time in one of these stories, so "ringworld" (1970) is set after the stories featuring them in this collection. (this review is from another edition of this book) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 1st Dec 2017		second, third or fourth sphere books paperback printing definitely not the 1971 first, cat# 63894, cover price 7/- (35p) and has different cover art the priority of these next three sphere p/bs is not certain - and is definitely misrepresented in the indicia of some of these printings & editions. two of these are declared to be "sphere sf classics", no.8 in this series on the rear cover; at least two bear the same isbn, 0722163851, cover price of 35p, and imply or state their printing dates to be 1972. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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