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245 10 a| Starborn and godsons /c| Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes.;

264 1 a| Riverdale, NY :b| Baen,c| 2020.;

300 a| xviii, 385 pages :b| maps ;c| 25 cm.;

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500 a| "New York Times best-selling authors"--Dust jacket.;

520 a| "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth's Solar System. This is a novel of first contact-between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world..."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Starborn and godsons / Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes.

Author/creator	Niven, Larry author.
Other author	Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-2017, author.
Other author	Barnes, Steven, 1952- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Riverdale, NY : Baen, 2020.
Description	xviii, 385 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Life on other planets--Fiction. Space colonies--Fiction. Imaginary wars and battles--Fiction. Human-alien encounters--Fiction. Survival--Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Series	Heorot series ; [4] Niven, Larry. Heorot series ; 4. UNAUTHORIZED
Abstract	"Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth's Solar System. This is a novel of first contact-between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world..."-- Provided by publisher.
Local note	Joyner Schlobin Coll.: In original dust jacket. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General note	"New York Times best-selling authors"--Dust jacket.
Acquisitions source	Joyner Schlobin Coll. item purchased from Amazon 20250224
Genre/form	Science fiction.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Science fiction.
Genre/form	Science fiction.
LCCN	2019054178
ISBN	9781982124489 (hardcover)
ISBN	1982124482

Starborn and godsons / Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes.

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