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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Niven's Known space:  hyperdrive for sale
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 10:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 10:06:51 1985
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>******  SPOILER WARNING!  ******
>
>But now that I think about it, it seems that the ending of "A Gift
>from Earth" is inconsistent with "Ringworld".  In "Ringworld", we are
>led to believe that the Puppeteers used a Starseed lure to force a
>meeting between the Outsiders and Man, knowing that Man would buy the
>FTL drive and then win the Man-Kzin war.  But, at the end of "A Gift
>from Earth", the outsiders pick up the trail of a ramscoop robot and
>compute its destination (or was it source?) and say to themselves,
>"Ahhh, new customers".  Oops!
>
>                        William LeFebvre

        I don't think this is  a  problem.  The  puppeteers  used  the
        starseed lure to pull the Outsiders  into  human  space,  then
        when  the Outsiders saw the ramscoop robot they followed it to
        We Made It.