Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Niven's Protectors Message-ID: <344@baylor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:30:43 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.344 Posted: Mon Aug 12 10:30:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:21:57 EDT References: <3147@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria Lines: 17 > to beat off the Pak ? Obviously, our guys win, because even by Louis Wu's > time, Pak were unknown. Not so. See "the ringworld engineers". Wu had seen Phsstpok's corpse. (pronounce that with a silent ph and t. What other superintelligent logical alien does that remind you of?) > But whathappens to Home itself, with all that > Tree-Of-Life virus floating in the atmosphere ? It bugs me. It's listed as uninhabitable (see the map in "Known Space"), and nobody is crazy enough to visit it. Or if they are they become protectors, read Brennan's journal, and go charging off to the Galactic Core. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076