Beowulf's Children: Volume 2

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BOOK TWOIN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES.

Some twenty years have passed since the passengers and crew of the starshipGeographicestablished a colony on the hostile alien world of Avalon. In that time, a new generation has grown up in the peace and serenity of the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought between their parents and grandparents and the monstrous inhabitants of Avalon.

Now, under the influence of a charismatic leader, a group of young rebels makes for the mainland, intent on establishing their own colony, sure that they can vanquish any foe that should stand in their way.

But they will soon discover that Avalon holds darker secrets still.

AboutBeowulf's Children:
Few writers have a finer pedigree than those here. . . .As one might suspectBeowulf's Childrenis seamless . . . absorbing, substantial . . . masterful novel.Los Angeles Times

Panoramic SF adventure at its best.Library Journal

About prequelThe Legacy of Heorot:
Page-turning action and suspense, good characterization and convincing setting . . .may be the best thing any of those authors has written.The Denver Post

Outstanding! . . . The best ever, by the best in the field . . .the ultimate combination of imagination and realism.Tom Clancy

Well written, action-packed and tension filled . . .makesAlienslook like a Disney nature film.The Washington Post

Spine-tingling ecological tale of terror.Locus

About Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle:
Possibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.Robert A. Heinlein onThe Mote in God's Eye

About Larry Niven:
Larry NivensRingworldremains one of the all-time classic travelogues of science fictiona new and amazing world and fantastic companions.Greg Bear

Our premier hard SF writer.The Baltimore Sun

The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can.Tom Clancy

Niven is a true master.Frederik Pohl

About Jerry Pournelle:
Jerry Pournelle is one of science fiction's greatest storytellers.Poul Anderson

Jerry Pournelle's trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics.David Drake

Rousing . . .The Best of the Genre.The New York Times

On the cover . . . is the claim'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be.Milwaukee JournalonJanissaries

About Steven Barnes:
Brilliant, surprising, and devastating.David Mack

Sharp, observant and scary.Greg Bear

Profound and exhilarating.Maurice Broaddus, author ofThe Knights of Breton Court

Barnes gives us characters that are vividly real people, conceived with insight and portrayed with compassion and rare skill and then he stokes the suspense up to levels that will make the reader miss sleep and be late for work.Tim Powers

[Barnes] combines imagination, anthropology and beautiful storytelling as he takes readers to the foot of the Great Mountain, today known as Mount Kilimanjaro.Durham Triangle TribuneonGreat Sky Woman

Author Bio

Larry Niven is known as an author for his hard science fiction, using big, but authentic scientific concepts and theoretical physics. His Known Space series is one of the most popular future history sagas in SF and includes the epic novel Ringworld, one of the few novels to have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, as well as the Locus and Ditmar awards, and which is recognized as a milestone in modern science fiction.

Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes his The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called mana, to make magic a non-renewable resource. Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of collections, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner. His Beowulfs Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller.

He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern, including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books, as is his Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, a memorable if not-quite-serious essay on Superman and the problems of his having a sex life.

He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. Most recently, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have presented him with the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, given for Lifetime Achievement in the field. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

Jerry Pournellewas a master of military science fiction, author of the series of novels about John Christian Falkenberg and his legion of interstellar mercenariesand many other works, such asJanissaries, Exiles to Glory, High Justice, King David's Spaceship, Starswarm, and others. With Larry Niven, hecollaborated on a string of best-selling novels, includingLucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and many more. He held advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science, and was activelyinvolved professionally in all these fields.

Steven Barnesis theNew York Timesbest-selling, Hugo Award-nominated author ofTwelve Daysand other novels, a screenwriter, and creator of the Lifewriting writing course, which he has taught nationwide. He recently won an NAACP Image Award as coauthor of the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series with his spouse, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood.