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Scatterbrain
by Larry Niven check out website: www.tor.com
In the years since, Niven has discovered the art of collaboration and he explains through examples in this book of how such co-operation worked out with the likes of Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes and Brenda Cooper.
Thing is though is that it doesn't show much depth to say I could
come away learning something other than there was a lot of re-writing
was involved in the process. Having said that, amongst the other stories there are
a few new 'Known Space' gems. A Beowulf Shaeffer story 'Procrustes', Gil Hamilton
in 'The Woman In Del Ray Crater' and a canon piece about the Kzin that should
make many of you pick the book up. Niven's own observation pieces about
life in the convention lane, the space programme and other bits are interesting
reads as well. Excerpts from 'Ringworld Throne' and 'Destiny's Road' though seem
more like padding if you've already read those books. No doubt someone somewhere
will explain this is to match the 'scatterbrain' title. Although pretty
much a mixed bag, it is still readable and will already be lining the shelves
of you Larry Niven fans out there now or when it reaches paperback. GF
Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - December 2003
Other reviews this month Dreams Underfoot by Charles De Lint Spirits In The Wires by Charles De Lint First Rider's Call by Kristen Britain Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg The Life Eaters by David Brin and Scott Hamilton Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones Dreams of the Compass Rose by Vera Nazarian One Lamp: Alternative History Stories edited by Gordon Van Gelder The Druid King by Norman Spinrad Star Trek: Nemesis novelisation by J.M. Dillard Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo The Sundering by Walter Jon Williams Nylon Angel by Marianne de Pierres Falling Out Of Cars by Jeff Noon The Darkest Part Of The Woods by Ramsey Campbell Lord Of Snow And Shadows by Sarah Ash Tales Of Ten Worlds by Arthur C. Clarke Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale Dante's Equation by Jane Jensen Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modesit Jr
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A
new anthology by Larry Niven will always have something to live
up to and in his case is his earlier work, 'All The Myriad Ways'
- a seminal work from his most prolific period.
I
do think that having two pieces of the email correspondence between
himself and Barnes and Cooper is a bit of an over-kill but probably
used to show the differences between them. 
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