In retrospect I wonder how much of Ringworld Engineers was Niven going to back to "fix" having inadvertently made a woman the centre of the universe.
It's interesting that Niven seems to have evolved from people posting that he should retire from writing (which was a thing 20 years ago) to his books appearing without making a ripple. Still, someone must be buying his stuff or it would not get published.
There are a whopping two women in this book and the sequel fridges both of them.
I spent reading time I now wish I had back on the last Heorot novel and it appears Niven has spent his career honing to a fine point his skills at pandering to a generation[1] that is now dying off.
[1] Actually, just the pale patriarchal penis possessing portion of said generation.
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It's interesting that Niven seems to have evolved from people posting that he should retire from writing (which was a thing 20 years ago) to his books appearing without making a ripple. Still, someone must be buying his stuff or it would not get published.
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(Anonymous) 2022-04-17 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)There are a whopping two women in this book and the sequel fridges both of them.
I spent reading time I now wish I had back on the last Heorot novel and it appears Niven has spent his career honing to a fine point his skills at pandering to a generation[1] that is now dying off.
[1] Actually, just the pale patriarchal penis possessing portion of said generation.
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+1.
On the other hand, if Niven did not exist I would not be able to use him as a worked example of how not to develop my own writing career.
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(Anonymous) 2022-04-18 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)* "Be born rich."