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Betrayer Of Worlds (2010)

by Larry Niven(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0765326086 (ISBN13: 9780765326089)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Fleet of Worlds

review 1: This is the story of Louis Wu and how he came to be mixed up in the Fleet of Worlds' business. If you've read the Ringworld series, you'll already know of him; I hadn't, so he was completely new to me and that was fine. Nessus brought him in to find Louis' stepfather, who we've met before in this series - but it turned out to be not-that-easy, of course.If you don't know what I'm talking about, go and read the three books in this series that come before it - I think it's pointless reading this book on its own, and it will make much more sense if you've got that history behind you.Like the others, it's not a long read at just under 400 pages. I recommend it! Might have to go and dig out the four Ringworld books published in the 1970s now, and see what all the fuss is about ... more- it sounds interesting. Niven has never disappointed me.
review 2: The Fleet of worlds series limps to a close...I don't know if this book was weak or if I am just tired of the series, but I struggled a little bit to get through this one. Niven is clearly trying to tie off some series loose ends and line all the characters up for the Ringworld Books. Since Ringworld was written like 30 years before the Fleet of Worlds, the stories don't have obvious connections, and so I feel like he had to twist the story around to get everyone into the right places to lead into those more famous books, which made for a pretty unsatisfying end to the series. Now I will have to decide if I want to go back to re-read Ringworld, I liked it when I read it the first time, but that was like 20 years ago! less

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