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The Legacy of Heorot

By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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Bestselling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind's first outpost in the farthest reaches of space.

Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.

©1987 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Fiction
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Critic reviews

“Outstanding!…The best ever, by the best in the field…The ultimate combination of imagination and realism.”

(Tom Clancy)

“The Legacy of Heorot is well written, action packed, and tension filled…Makes Aliens look like a Disney nature film.”

(Washington Post)

“Page-turning action and suspense, good characterization, and convincing setting…May be the best thing any of those authors has written.”

(Denver Post)

“Spine-tingling ecological tale of terror…A story as relentless as the great white shark of Jaws.”

(Locus)

“Entertaining…The novel is best in its sympathetic treatment of the once formidable scientists who wake from cold sleep with impaired mental powers.”

(Publishers Weekly)

“Tom Weiner gives a splendid narration of this futuristic story in which a colony of humans makes a century-long space journey in suspended animation to the seemingly pristine planet of Avalon…He adroitly gives each of the characters individual voices and makes this a wonderful listening experience.”

(AudioFile)

“The book’s tough realism and complex characters make the story seem frighteningly real; it reads much like a Stephen King horror novel.”

(School Library Journal)
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What did you like most about The Legacy of Heorot?

I read this book years ago and was very pleased to see the audio version available at last.

What did you like best about this story?

The whole concept.

What does Tom Weiner bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

He is okay.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes.

Very good.

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A classic sci fi adventure yarn with superb character development, an alien world described so well you can feel the wind blow and a stunning story with an alien antagonist to match them all. First read this many years ago and it’s as good now as it was then. Very highly recommended!

Everything I Need in a Book

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I first read this on publication back in the 1980's and enjoyed it then. I have re-purchased and re-read with gusto over the intervening years.

The story is undeniably good, the plot excellent, the tension inexorable.

The narrator I at first thought work-a-day, but he turned out to be very, very, good.

Possibly one of the best sci-fi yarns, ever.

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All four books in the series are good. As usual a very realist and consistent universe. A good mixture hard Science Fiction and action. I found a lot of the head-of-chapter biblical quotations a bit irritating and not relevant to the chapter, but what the heck the chapters were good. This relates to the first two books in the series. The narration of all four books was excellent

Excellent Series

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I read this a long time ago and it has aged very well. A good sound performance and we’ll paced narrative

Classic SF story from my youth

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