All the Myriad Ways

[calzephyr]

I was surprised to find that we had this volume of short stories by Larry Niven on our bookshelf; I believe zandperl had recommended either it or Larry Niven to me. About half the stories appealed to me. I really enjoy short science fiction stories because it's too easy for science fiction to be overly padded and a genius idea is usually lost. I just didn't care for Niven's style half of the time, and the most of the time I was wondering if the technological and scientific concepts he wrote about were still applicable. This was probably my first time reading hard science fiction as well.

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[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

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 :-)