![]() Niven's essays on the SF genre and commentaries on the stories make this collection a must for SF fans. While some of the stories here are classics, most have not previously been collected in book form. '' In ``The Return of William Proxmire'' the title character uses a time machine to save the health and military career of Robert A. Having found the way out, he decides to stay to help other souls 'Escape From Hell', which leads us 33 years later to this sequel. ``Brenda'' is a novella featuring the Sauron Superman described in Mote it is nicely complemented by ``Building The Mote in God's Eye. In 1976, Niven & Pournelle wrote 'Inferno' a great little fantasy novel about science fiction writer Allen Carpenter who wakes up in Dantes Hell and wants to leave. ``Madness Has Its Place'' is a missing tale from the Known Space series, while ``Down in Flames'' gives the outline for a story in which all Known Space is destroyed. ![]() ![]() This bemusingly titled story is one answer to the question: Why is nobody out there talking to us? ``Bordered in Black'' provides a second answer, and ``The Fourth Profession'' a third. ![]() ``What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?'' or, indeed, about any of the provocative ideas that Niven ( Ringworld ) raises in this retrospective collection ranging over three decades of work. ![]()
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