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Review Summaries
"It is many years later and Louis Wu is still on the Ringworld when he discovers that visiting alien ships are being shot out of the sky by some unknown power, the local hominid races are being destroyed by vampires, and the repercussions of all the good things Louis did before now seem to be coming back to him, and not in a good way!"
Jessica Augustsson, Resident Larry Niven Scholar
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Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- part earth & part fantasy world
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- rescue mission/escape from confinement
Tech./$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- power source
- info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena
War or Invasion
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- wealthy
Age:
- long lived adults
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male Alien
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
Terrain
- Jungle
- Desert
- Water
- Mountains
- Forests
- Space, need spacesuit
- Domed/Underground City
Spaceship setting:
- alien spaceship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- humans in a primitive/fantasy society
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- unfriendly aliens
- neutral aliens
- empty, or nearly empty world
- big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- impregnation/reproduction
- weird alien sex
- actual description of sex
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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