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Original Title:	A Gift from Earth
ISBN:	0345350510 (ISBN13: 9780345350510)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Known Space
Characters:	Matthew Keller

A Gift from Earth (Known Space)

Larry Niven

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 3151 Users | 75 Reviews

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Browsing through the Niven backlist of Known Space books, and after the stellar Protector and Ringworld's Children, expectations were ramped up for A Gift from Earth. And this does start with a great setup: on a world where the only livable landmass is 40 miles up on a plateau, we find the colony of Mount Lookitthat. Not only do its inhabitants live on the edge of a steep death, but they are further burdened with a repressive society of haves and have-nots. The privileged 'Crew' can have any organ of the body transplanted except for the nervous system, promising themselves extended lifetimes. Organs are harvested from the 'Colonists' who must watch out for any transgression that may get them a death sentence at the organ banks. A diabolical scenario, for sure.

There is only one path for the colonists, and they are moved on this path by the arrival of a gift from earth. Thus, we have another complex concept book from Niven.

Gift ought to be a tale of anger and reprisal, a revolution brewing and exploding, Anthem with real passion, but instead the author chooses to follow the adventures of Matthew Keller. To be sure, Keller has something unique that makes him an interesting character. But in the background I expected true angst, lives wrecked by repression, a passionate insurgency rather than an intellectual, logical one. I kept looking for this even after the last page.

A rational book for an irrational social order. Keeping my rating of 3 stars.

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Title	:	A Gift from Earth (Known Space)
Author	:	Larry Niven
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	July 12th 1984 by Del Rey (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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Good old science fiction.

Set in Nivens Known Space, more specifically on the world of Plateau, where the only habitable location is Mount Lookitthat, an area half the size of California that rises above the toxic clouds that range the planet. The crew of the initial colony ship set up an elitist society in which crew are first class citizens and colonists are lower class. This distinction is particularly noticeable when it comes to medical care. Capital punishment is used even for small offenses. Convicted criminals are

Larry Niven was my favorite author in my pre-teen and early teen years. Back in those days I read all of his pre-1980 work over and over again (aside from the novels The Magic Goes Away and Protector) and then I stopped. Though I did end up reading Footfall many years later, for about 30 years I gave little thought to reading any of his stuff.A year ago though, bored with what I was reading and compelled by the cover of Juggler of Worlds, I ordered it from Powell's and read it. I then read three

For some reason I have so far found two copies of this book in my shelves and boxes of books. I am unsure why I never read this back when I was reading all that Larry Niven wrote. The story starts strong, lots of world building and backstory in this book, but it kind of peters out in the end. Frankly, the story did not age well. Story points such as that before sending the colony ship to this world there was only one probe dispatched to examine the system / world. No one in this day and age

This is my first Niven novel and, given his popularity, I have to assume its not one of his better works. The explanation for the hero's talent was a bit too far-fetched and his motivation for penetrating into the dangerous Hospital was extremely weak. There was also that annoying streak of fascism that surfaces so often in science-fiction, particularly that of the "Old Masters." Both oppressor and oppressed alike seem the recognize a need for capital punishment and concealing from the public

First of all, I read this in serial form...and it has a different name? It took me forever to find it! So I read "Slowboat Cargo". Why change the name? A Gift from Earth is probably a better title, but still. But I liked this! Matt was a fun character, with his ability to be forgotten. Towards then end, I realized that this all mostly happened because he got shot down by a pretty girl at a party...and that amused me. At it's core tho, this is a book about revolution, and it was full of

49 out of 100.One of those 'the way the future was' novels. By that I mean a novel written forty plus years ago that fails to anticipate many technological advantages in the near future but still is set in the far future. People are living in distant planets in a galactic empire and still have hand held telephones and coffee tables. That being said, the premise of the novel is almost a philosophical question: does technology dictate ethics? In the universe of this novel, set in the far future on