A Gift from Earth
by Larry Niven
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At a glance:
- Author: Larry Niven
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: Several hundred years in the future
- Setting: The Plateau on Mount Lookitthat, on a planet in the Tau Ceti system
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction, Novel
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Other worlds, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Torture, Totalitarianism, Organ donation
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
A Gift from Earth is a segment of Larry Niven’s Known Space series, a group of loosely connected novels and short stories, most from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. The series portrays the first centuries of human interstellar exploration and settlement, along with attendant encounters with various alien races.
After landing on a maze of plateaus, on a mountain rising above the poisonous gases of an otherwise uninhabitable planet, the small crew of an Earth colony ship establishes a dictatorship over the colonists, who had been in suspended animation....
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