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A Gift from Earth
by Larry Niven
Niven, Larry. A Gift from Earth. Del Rey, 1984.
Niven’s Known Space series is always fun and can be morphed into any number of genres and keep several balls in the air at the same time. Gift begins with the question of what would happen if a tyrannical society that uses organ harvesting as a form of punishment suddenly received disruptive technology that made organ harvesting obsolete. To this it adds the question of what happens if you put a man with the power to render himself virtually invisible as an accidental conscript in the revolution. I am tempted to say you can’t make this stuff up, but I guess Niven can. 4 stars.
Niven’s Known Space series is always fun and can be morphed into any number of genres and keep several balls in the air at the same time. Gift begins with the question of what would happen if a tyrannical society that uses organ harvesting as a form of punishment suddenly received disruptive technology that made organ harvesting obsolete. To this it adds the question of what happens if you put a man with the power to render himself virtually invisible as an accidental conscript in the revolution. I am tempted to say you can’t make this stuff up, but I guess Niven can. 4 stars.