# Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds

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**Created:** [January 3, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-nivens-fleet-of-worlds/432086 "2008-01-03T03:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-nivens-fleet-of-worlds/432086/1 "2008-01-03T03:35:00Z")

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I just found out about this one. Any good? I’d love to read it, based on the ideas it works with, and Known Space being a great storytelling tool, but I’ve been burned before by books like this… (RAMA, anyone?)

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**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-nivens-fleet-of-worlds/432086/2 "2008-01-03T06:09:05Z")

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I read it a while back. I thought it was pretty good, certainly better than much of his recent solo stuff. There’s a bit of shoe-horning (painful “retcon”-ing) to make the story fit with published canon, but there’s nothing new about that in the Known Space stories anyway.

I’d give it a 6/10 – worth getting around to, but not the kind of book I’d recommend moving to the top of the “to be read” pile.