{"id":5950,"date":"2023-04-08T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebookscabin.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5950"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:12:29","slug":"starborn-and-godsons-larry-niven-2020","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ebookscabin.com\/?product=starborn-and-godsons-larry-niven-2020","title":{"rendered":"Starborn and Godsons &#8211; Larry Niven (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE\u00a0HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a\u00a0verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named\u00a0&#8220;grendels&#8221; were under control, and the mainland outposts well established.\u00a0Avalon&#8217;s new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and\u00a0when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the\u00a0Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to\u00a0make all the necessities for life. They would survive.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">They would not survive as a spacefaring people.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space.\u00a0But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there\u00a0in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And\u00a0its destination was Avalon. 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