![]() Jerry Pournelle also penned the Sauron Super-Soldier, genetically modified for great strength, speed, and endurance. ![]() In yet another book co-written with Jerry Pournelle, Niven introduces an alien race of multiple subspecies with defined roles - including mighty warriors and a semi-sentient engineer race. In the Ringworld universe.well, it's giant cats, but hair is hard to render. In Halo, humanity fights amongst its' colonies until an alien race of Herman Miller enthusiasts with superior physical strength and advanced technology arrives to whoop ass. Those same aliens left a bunch of shit behind to drive the plot. ![]() In the same universe as Ringworld, an ancient race of aliens blew up a bomb that killed all intelligent life in the universe to starve their enemies to death. In sequels, they find very familiar "map rooms." Most of the book involved running around cool alien ruins and ecologies. ![]() In truth, they likely cribbed a lot more than that: It's generally well known that the Halo is an example of the "ringworld" invented by sci-fi author Larry Niven, who created much of modern sci-fi in the 1960s. ![]()
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