This Hugo-nominated work is a classic of Niven’s Known Space saga.

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

Brennan was a Belter, the product of the fiercely separate, somewhat anarchic society surviving in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, everyone, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak dispatch for times, and Brennan figured to meet up that ship initial.

He was never seen again-at least not by those alive at that time.

“Both halves of the book are permeated using the ingenuity that is the driving energy of Niven’s stories since his earliest work.”-The Journal of Dream & Research Fiction