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The Goliath Stone (2013)

by Larry Niven(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0765333236 (ISBN13: 9780765333230)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: Don't bother with this one, your time is better spent reading labels at a supermarket. The less I know about Larry Niven's politics, the best I can enjoy his work. Unfortunately he didn't give me a chance to ignore it this time, nor was any of the writing good enough to distract from it. In fact, the best part of this novel, or rather the only good part, is the collection of quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
review 2: Every so often a fun wish-fulfillment tales comes a long and makes you wish the real world worked as easily as the world in the tale. The Goliath Stone (hard from Tor by Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington) is about ideal nano-technology. In 2027 a nanobot filled space ship is sent to the Asteroid Belt to bring back an iron filled a... moresteroid. In 2051 something is headed for Earth on a collision course. Toby Glyer, who designed the original bots is immediately declared a terrorist and has to go on the run. He is helped by Mycroft Yellowhorse, a man in the process of winning all the current Olympic events and used to be William Conner, and extremely smart cripple now ninety years old. He had modified Toby’s bots and infected the whole world, with all sort of good effects. Eventually he and Toby and their girl friends fly to space, opposed by the bad U. S. government authority people, to meet the returning bots who have become sapient. Fun, extremely libertarian, and the fanish references are a a giggle to those in the know. Printed by the Philadelphia Weekly Press less

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