The Legacy of Heorot
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The Legacy of Heorot
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Narrated by:
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Tom Weiner
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Written by:
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Larry Niven
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Jerry Pournelle
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Steven Barnes
About this listen
Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space.
Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.
©1987 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What the critics say
“Outstanding!…The best ever, by the best in the field…. The ultimate combination of imagination and realism.” (Tom Clancy)
"The Legacy of Heorot is well written, action packed, and tension filled…. Makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film.” (Washington Post)
“Page-turning action and suspense, good characterization, and convincing setting…. May be the best thing any of those authors has written.” (Denver Post)
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- Impish
- 2020-09-10
Great story
Fantastic story although the writing of the female character's hasn't aged well. Several of the main female characters spend large amounts of time discussing how they "need" a man to survive. Children require a father to be raised correctly, etc.
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- Blair J Lindsay
- 2018-09-13
One of the finest sci-fi novels ever written
This book has it all. Smart, complicated, conflicted characters that you can identify with. An exotic, alien environment. Creatures that are scary and fearsome and nigh unstoppable. Good solid hard sci-fi with a plot twist that amps up the danger a thousand-fold. If I were trapped on a desert island with five books, this would be one of them. I could read / listen to it again and again. Where is the movie? #Audible1
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-03-16
Author jumps perspectives
Creatures are interesting. Worst part is how the author jumps from macro to micro perspectives in the story line. Very poorly done. All the characters feel like caricatures with stupid catch phrases. The unnecessary obsession with cheezy "romantic" dialog while there is so much detailing of the world that could be fleshed out is annoying.
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- Lucassie M.
- 2022-10-16
Misogynistic
Sucks that there’s such overt misogyny from authors because the story telling is quite good. The book would probably be popular amongst incels.
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