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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Read the short stories at the back of this book first, otherwise you'll be confused. (  ) saltmanz | Jan 13, 2009 |  A collection of Svetz stories, taking those that were in Flight of the Horse and adding the title story from much later, basically. It is also a short novel. A brief Svetz timeline is given before the other stories. Rainbow Mars : Rainbow Mars - Larry Niven Rainbow Mars : The Flight of the Horse - Larry Niven Rainbow Mars : Leviathan! - Larry Niven Rainbow Mars : Bird in the Hand - Larry Niven Rainbow Mars : There's a Wolf in My Time Machine - Larry Niven Rainbow Mars : Death in a Cage - Larry Niven Going for a Barsoomy feel with a really big tree 3 out of 5 I wish he would get his own bloody unicorn. 3.5 out of 5 Appearances in the record should not be taken as gospel for massive mythical monsters. 3 out of 5 Roc the plasma. 3.5 out of 5 Werewolf girl following time. 3 out of 5 Don't see this doctor. 2.5 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/04... ( ) bluetyson | Apr 12, 2008 | Good Niven, but unfortunately set in the slightest of his universes. wfzimmerman | May 5, 2007 | I finally got through this book on the third try. Niven's later worlds, swarming with different species in constant combat, are somehow too much invention for me. In this story he ties together time travel, alternate futures, and a whole bunch of myths about giant trees and as well as giant beanstalks, Baba Yaga, and turning things into gold. There was a reward at the end of this story, though: all of the stories from The Flight of the Horse, which are some of his earliest and which have a lot of narrative and action packed into a short arc. At the end of the book is a short explanation of how Niven came to write one more story about Svetz the time-traveller after 30 years. (  ) monado | Apr 2, 2007 | I've read some of the stories about Hanville Svetz, from our polluted future. In "The Flight of the Horse" and related stories he goes back in time to collect extinct animals -- and always winds up with something a little different. But in this book he goes into Mars' past, and finds water and Martians. This is just a reminder that Mars has some plains flat enough to be ancient sea bottoms, like the salt flats of Nevada or the clay plains around Lake Erie. ( ) monado | Apr 2, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0812566785, Mass Market Paperback)According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible--sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds. In short stories collected in The Flight of the Horse (1973), his quests for a horse, a Gila monster, and a whale unearthed a unicorn, a dragon, and Moby-Dick. Less comic but equally daft, Rainbow Mars combines both space and time travel to explore Mars in the deep past, before it was a dead world. Naturally it's populated by a menagerie of warring fictional Martians from Edgar Rice Burroughs (multi-armed sword-wielders), H.G. Wells (tentacles and heat rays), and less familiar authors. Svetz and companions are soon in big trouble. Complications include a gigantic alien tree extending into Mars's orbit--an organic version of the space elevator in Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise. One of these useful "beanstalks" on Earth seems a highly desirable facility, but there are hidden drawbacks, and most of the multiplying timelines lead to disaster. This is fun for experienced SF readers who can follow the in-jokes and the switchback ride through tangled alternative histories. The earlier, even funnier Svetz stories are included as a bonus. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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