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Juggler of Worlds [Hardcover]

Larry Niven (Author), Edward M. Lerner (Author)
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Publication Date: 1 July 2008
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds.  Now Sigmund is pulling the strings . . .
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien.  Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
 
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies.  Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he reperesents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him.  Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him.  That fog has begun to lift...
 
But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.
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  • Hardcover: 349 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (1 July 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765318261
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765318268
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.7 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 674,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jeery Pournelle and Steven Barnes was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
 
EDWARD M. LERNER has degrees in physics and computer science, a background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing SF full-time. His books include Probe, Moonstruck, and the collection Creative Destruction. Fleet of Worlds was his first collaboration with Larry Niven. He lives in Virginia with Ruth, his wife of a mere 35 years.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Not the best point of entry for those new to Known Space 20 Sep 2008
By Grant Hutchison
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This novel, for most of its length, runs parallel to the events of Niven's short stories about Beowulf Shaeffer, collected in "Crashlander", which it reinterprets from the viewpoints of Sigmund Ausfaller and Nessus: minor characters in the "Crashlander" sequence, but central to "Juggler of Worlds". We also revisit the events of his short story "The Soft Weapon", in which Nessus has a major role.
This must have been an awkward one to write, since the authors try to avoid confusing readers who have no knowledge of the other stories, while not boring hard-core fans who have committed the plots to memory.
As a fan, I found the reinterpretation of old plots in a wider new scheme was interesting, but lacked the entertainment value of an entirely new story. Walking through well-remembered events made certain passages drag. In contrast, I suspect a newcomer would be baffled and frustrated by the speed with which events and characters come and go.

At the end, this story picks up events from the previous novel by these authors, "Fleet of Worlds". There's a twist involving one of the characters, and a revelation about Known Space history which is rather neatly tied to "clues" taken from previous works by Niven and rehearsed in the present volume.

If you're new to Niven's universe, you should certainly go for the old favourites like "Ringworld" and "Protector" first, which stand alone much better than the present volume.

If you haven't read the "Crashlander" sequence of short stories, you might consider doing so before reading this work.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing 1 Nov 2008
By Ed F TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Following on from last year's "fleet of worlds" this book continues the story of known space, primarily from the viewpoint of the puppeteers and Niven's 2nd best characterised ARM agent, Sigmund Ausfaller, who as an extremely talented hyper paranoid hunts down and blocks perceived and real threats to Earth. This narrative again mixes several threads, Ausfaller's partial unravelling of the puppeteer conspiracies on Earth and elsewhere, Beowulf Schaeffer's entanglement with Ausfaller and his attempts to get free and the various political machinations of characters from earlier works and the puppeteers themselves, especially Nessus. It's a fast paced book and highly readable with a satisfying structure which builds to a series of revelations about events described in other known space books.

But if you are new to Niven's known space works, don't start here.

Basically Larry Niven is using this latest set of novels to tie up every element of his previously published known space works into a single cohesive narrative, where all characters, events, "use one time" plot devices, simple mistakes, throw away concepts, pretty turns of phrase etc are tied up and wrapped behind the over arching puppeteer conspiracies and the very human-centric events of the earlier works are illuminated by the larger scale, longer time frame point of view of the puppeteer homeworlds.

Now I'll take any new writings about known space with little complaint and I'll devour them in a single session.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant. 25 Dec 2012
By Patricia Bird
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This book was out of print, so I chose to have a used copy. When it arrived it looked like a new book. It was impossible to tell it had been used.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Juggler of words 11 July 2012
By D. J. Ketchin
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Another over arcing collaborative Piece set in Nivens classic 'Known Space' universe.

At this point in the timeline the puppeteers have set their planets bound for the edge of the galaxy due to the discovery that the stars in the galactic core are exploding.

The narrative follows Sigmund Ausfaller - a foil who originally appeared in most of the 'Beowulf Schaeffer' short stories from early in Nivens career. Most of those stories appear in the collection - 'Crashlander' and are set in the early period of known space.

Sigmund Ausfaller has been 'collected' by the puppeteers and brought to the fleet of worlds. As an ARM agent and a paranoid schizophrenic the puppeteers find him more useful than the previously kidnapped human survivors they have been using up to this point. His connection to their previous unwitting agent -Beowulf schaeffer is a bonus.

The plot of this book - as with all the others in this series retraces the path of earlier stories in 'known space' and tries to constuct a common fabric binding them all together. That fabric being the involvement of the puppeteers. Ausfaller - a minor character in the Schaeffer stories is resurrected to provide some continuity.

In all honesty - its another fairly meaningless reprise of content previously delivered in other books. It lacks the flair and imagination of the original stories - and is the equivalent of a historian revisiting old notes and from them trying to reproduce a masterpiece.

It may have Nivens name - but it lacks any of his magic.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Very dissapointing 15 Jun 2009
By Robert
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I loved the known space tales. The sense of wonder and colour has stayed with me for almost thirty years. I am so glad I knew those tales, because if I read this work I doubt I would ever have returned to Niven's works. I feel the best way to describe Juggler of Worlds is as a commentary on the previous known space tales. Unfortunately I found this work boring and thin as if someone was recounting a story. A bit like a summary in a TV listing guide.
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