Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm 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 Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.716 Posted: Sat Feb 9 20:34:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:19:43 EST References: <551@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 12 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?