Neutron Star (short story collection)

Neutron Star is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Larry Niven, published in April 1968. The individual stories were published in If and Galaxy Science Fiction in 1966–1967, under Frederik Pohl as editor.

Cover of the first edition, published by Ballantine Books.

Contents

The book contains the following eight stories:

• "Neutron Star"
• "A Relic of the Empire"
• "At the Core"
• "The Soft Weapon"
• "Flatlander"
• "The Ethics of Madness"
• "The Handicapped"
• "Grendel"

All stories are set in Niven's Known Space universe.

Reception

Algis Budrys praised the collection, saying that it was evidence that "quality rises above fashion".[1]

References

1. Budrys, Algis (December 1968). "Galaxy Bookshelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 149–155.

External links

• Neutron Star title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Neutron Star at Open Library