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Narrated by:
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Tom Taylorson
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The long-awaited conclusion of the Heorot series from genre legends Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes
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....
©2020 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. Introduction © 2020 by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes (P)2020 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about Starborn and Godsons
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Emrys
- 06-07-2020
Struggled to pause and attend to real life.
I heartily recommend the entire series, but I felt the most satisfaction with this book.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Ben
- 20-05-2021
Bitter sweet
It’s always a poignant thing to read somebody’s swansong. This then, the final canonical instalment in the Avalon universe, can be forgiven for the shortcomings that make it the weakest of the four. Despite The relative inconsistency in pacing and character development, and the somewhat strained plausibility of the interactions between those characters, this was the conclusion to the series that it had to have, a series I first discovered in 1993 when I first read Legacy of Heorot. I still enjoyed this greatly, and found generation to be of a particularly high standard.
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