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  • Written by: Larry Niven
  • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Protector

Written by: Larry Niven
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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This Hugo-nominated work is a classic of Niven's Known Space saga.

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission was to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before.

Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days, and Brennan figured to meet that ship first.

He was never seen again - at least not by those alive at the time.
©1973 Larry Niven (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Adventure Space Exploration Space Opera
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Great Story in Classic Larry Niven Future Universe

I have read the book several times, and now I have the audio book, which I frequently listen to at night. This story is essential to appreciating Niven's Ringworld series, and other tales in that universe. Niven has an amazing ability to think like an alien well enough to convince you that aliens are different from us, and sometimes similar to us. This story really crosses the bridge from alien to human.

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