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A nice little Niven connection.
Posted By: Dirkgently <sevenisdarker@hotmail.com>Date: 6/21/08 12:17 a.m.


I'm rereading Contact Harvest at the moment, and just got to the part where we are expositioned upon about the history of the Lekgolo, and how they lived on the rocks that make up the ring of a planet near the Sangheili homeworld. it describes how some ate Forerunner alloys, others rocks mixed with compacted forerunner circuitry, and others who ate only.

This rang a distant bell in my head of something I had just recently read. I snatched up my copy of Larry Niven's N-Space (Which I heartily recommend you all to get a copy of if you haven't already. It's a massive anthology of short stories and essays and excerpts from his books). Inside is an excerpt from the novel A Gift From Earth which was written by Niven and Hank Stine.

In the beginning of the excerpt, it has a conversation between a man named Matt and another named Hood. Matt is telling him about his woes as a miner: How he uses a genetically engineered worms that eat only the right kind of ore and pass a more refined copy of it. However, these worms are bred for one type of ore only, and he goes on about how they eat, and reproduce and then Hood suggests that maybe the system was designed to exploit the miners. I'd go into detail more, but I don't feel like quoting, and you should go and get your own copy of N-Space. Seriously, it's like sixteen bucks go get a copy.

Just thought I'd share this. And kinda sorta plug a Niven book that I love.

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A nice little Niven connection.Dirkgently 6/21/08 12:17 a.m.
     Re: A nice little Niven connection.SPARTAN-034 6/21/08 12:26 a.m.
           Re: A nice little Niven connection.Dirkgently 6/21/08 12:54 a.m.
           Re: A nice little Niven connection.Zohak 6/21/08 12:56 a.m.



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