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Subject: Louis Wu
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From: Hank Shiffman <Shiffman@SWW-WHITE>

    > Beowulf Shaeffer ... father of Louis Wu ...

    Well, not biological father.  But say, if Bey was the "father" of
    Louis (as I had always presumed), there is a passage that confuses
    me.  In the beginning of Ringworld they spend a great deal of time
    discussing the Long Shot, and its previous flight.  It seems strange
    to me that Louis didn't know it was his own father that had made
    that flight (I think his name is even mentioned somewhere, but I
    couldn't find it).

I believe that it's explained in "The Borderland of Sol".  Since
Shaeffer was legally prevented from having children on Earth, his wife
Sharrol had one with Carlos Wu.  There's a scene in "Borderland" where
Shaeffer and Wu Senior run into each other.  Wu is embarrassed over the
whole substitute father business, although Shaeffer can't see what he's
so upset about.