Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!derek From: derek@uwvax.UUCP (Derek Zahn) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Niven's Characters Message-ID: <120@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:17:14 EST Article-I.D.: uwvax.120 Posted: Mon Feb 11 06:17:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:56:01 EST References: <551@topaz.ARPA> <716@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 20 > Beowulf Shaeffer ... father of Louis Wu ... Well, not biological father. But say, if Bey was the "father" of Louis (as I had always presumed), there is a passage that confuses me. In the beginning of Ringworld they spend a great deal of time discussing the Long Shot, and its previous flight. It seems strange to me that Louis didn't know it was his own father that had made that flight (I think his name is even mentioned somewhere, but I couldn't find it). Also, we know how Louis ends his life (more or less), but what ultimately becomes of Beowulf Shaeffer? He is by far my favorite Niven character, and I feel somewhat cheated not knowing what happens to him. derek -- Derek Zahn @ wisconsin ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!derek derek@wisc-rsch.arpa