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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Niven's Characters
Message-ID: <716@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 20:34:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 20:34:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:19:43 EST
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Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob)
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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Summary: 

>Overall, I enjoyed it, but there was a lack of characterization; it seems to
>me that this is a general problem with Niven's more recent work.  Niven's
>most memorable characters, to me, are still Gil Hamilton and Louis Wu.

What? Bewulf Shaeffer - hero of "Neutron Star" (a.k.a "There is a Tide")
(which you mentioned), first man to know that the center of the Galaxy has
exploded, one of the only two men to have visited an anti-matter solar
system (and collect on the failure of a GP hull!), one of the few humans to
be featured in a kdatlyno touch-sculpture, and father of Louis Wu doesn't
make the list?