Espace connu - Le monde des Ptavvs ; Protecteur ; Un cadeau de la Terre

Known Space

by Larry Niven

Avec Le Monde des ptavvs, premier roman écrit par l'auteur, l'humanité se débat dans une colonisation difficile de son système solaire, lorsque l'un de ses représentants, le télépathe Larry Greenberg, est confronté à un premier contact sidérant : un plongeon de plus d'un milliard d'années au sein d'un conflit majeur entre plusieurs xéno-espèces cherchant à se libérer des terribles Esclavagistes.

Dans Protecteur, nous assistons à une chasse spatiale inédite entre Brennan, un contrebandier zonier, produit d'une société anarchique qui exploite les ressources de la zone des astéroïdes, et Phssthpok, le mystérieux Pak protecteur qui voyage depuis 32 000 ans. Les mondes de la Zone avaient repéré et pistaient le vaisseau Pak depuis des jours. Brennan comptait l'atteindre le premier... On ne le revit jamais... du moins sous sa forme humaine.

Avec Un cadeau de la Terre, Larry Niven nous dévoile les dérives de la colonisation spatiale. Installés depuis plus de trois siècles sur Plateau, une planète située dans le système solaire Tau Ceti, les colons survivent tant bien que mal sur l'immense mesa qui émerge de l'atmosphère brûlante de ce monde. Au sein d'une société profondément inégalitaire, la classe dominante a organisé un horrible trafic d'organes à son profit. La révolte gronde. Sera-t-elle attisée par le vaisseau drone en provenance de la Terre ou l'étrange pouvoir du jeune et naïf mineur Matthew Keller ?

Cet omnibus comprend une préface d'Alex Nikolavitch nous éclairant sur l'Espace Connu ainsi qu'une chronologie et un glossaire de cet univers

649 pages, Hardcover

Published September 19, 2019

About the author

Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.

Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource.

Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner.

He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969.

Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. In 1972, for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol.

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early Kzin story The Soft Weapon. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.

He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.

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