Don't have time?!?!? There's ALWAYS enough time for SF. 5 minutes on a bus or during lunch breaks, just before bed. Of course, the big problem is once you start you can't put it down again. But that's quibbling. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Seriously, a lot of what Niven wrote is in short-story form. "Tales of Known Space" (which I'm reading again now) and "Neutron Star" (which I just finished) are the perfect primers to his Known Space series. Then, when you have the time, like a vacation or something, you can sit down with a longer one like "Ringworld".

I reread the entire Known Space series a year and a half ago, book by book, and it looks like I'm going to be doing it again.

So no more excuses buddy. Get to cracking those books! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]

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