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From:  J.C. Patilla 


Wasn't Niven's Transporter piece in the collection "All the Myriad
Ways", along with the short story of that title, as well as "Man of
Steel, Woman of Kleenex" and (my personal favorite) "What Do You Do
with a Chocolate-Covered Manhole Cover ?"   ?

j.c. patilla

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	It's been some time since I read any Niven, but...

	I believe that the book containing the transporter(teleportation) article
was "All the Myriad Ways".  In the books "A Hole in Space", "All the Myriad Ways",
and "Convergent Series", he presents the impact that teleportation has on society.

	I like a lot of Niven's writing because it contains a lot of high-tech/
hard science adventure stories in an SF setting.  Also, he had some really
neat(*really ALIEN*) aliens.  It's a shame he stopped writing "Known
Space".

							Nessus

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I've read most of Niven`s work and have enjoyed most of it
thoroughly.  There is one I`ve missed.  In it he discusses in detail
the concept of his skin tight vacuum suit.

If anyone could let me know which book of his elabortates on this,
please let me know.

Thanks,

Bret Marquis
sdcsvax!sdchema!bang!bam
bam@NOSC

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> 
>     Tree of life root will kill you if you are too old.  What if you
>     start taking the youth-preserving drugs SOON enough?  You are now
>     over 100, physically aged 26, and you find some tree of life
>     root.  (Or rather, it finds you!)  What happens?
> 
*** REPLACE THIS BREEDER WITH YOUR PROTECTOR! ***

It killed the Hero didn't it?  Moreover, we have it on the authority
of the protector Teela Brown that it was because he was too old
by many centuries even though he was physically still quite youthful.
I'd take her word for it. After all she's much smarter and knowledgeable 
than any breeder.

"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas
                               Austin, Texas 78712

*Anyone who wants to claim these opinions is welcome to them*

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     I seem to remember in Ringworld Engineers that the warrior Teela was going
around with (he had taken a massive does of youth drug and was around the right
age when he took it) died when they found the chamber with hte tree of life root
in it because he was too old. Apparently, you only get one shot and taking the
youth drugs (what he took wasn't booster spice but a derivative of tree of life
root) doesn't allow you survive the change.
M. McCann