I really liked the stories at the beginning - the ones after the two unfinished story didn't really engage me all that much except for Becalmed in Hell. I'm sure we must have other books by him...there are just so many paperbacks. Most of them should be for the garbage bin judging just by the cover art :-D I find that some science fiction, and I was feeling it with the other half of this book, is too carefully crafted and I thought Niven just wasn't stretching himself much as an author. To me his style is actually pretty pedantic but I'll have to read more :-)