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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Niven's Known space:  hyperdrive for sale
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 13:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 13:47:52 1985
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> 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!

The starseed lure could have lured them into the vicinity, and the scoop
gave them the last little nudge?
-- 
	Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva
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