Crashlander

Crashlander is a fixup by Larry Niven published in 1994. It brings together the short stories featuring the We Made It space pilot Beowulf Shaeffer — Neutron Star (Hugo Award winner, 1967), At The Core (1966), Flatlander (1967), Grendel (1968), The Borderland of Sol (1975) and Procrustes (1993) — and lightly links and extends them with Ghost.

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A crashlander, in Niven's Known Space, is anyone from We Made It.

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Most of the stories were previously included in the 1968 collection Neutron Star.

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Fixup: A fixup is a novel created from short stories which may or may not have been initially related. The stories are edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material is written for the new novel....

Larry Niven: Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is in hard science fiction, utilizing big science concepts and theoretical physics in his stories. His writin...

1994: 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family....