Title: Not as clever, but even more exciting than _Legacy_
Product review: I find myself forced into the role of being a _Beowulf's Children_ apologist. I will have to admit right away that the ingenios ecology of _legacy of Heorot_ is missing from this book, and true, the sex can get embarassingly gratuitous, but...jeez louise, this book is so freaking action-packed I will forgive it anything. People who are used to books that telegraph characters' eventual fates by page six will find their best predictions stymied by this one. I swear, they must have rolled dice to decide which characters would live and which die. Ignore all the carpers who can't take a little mindless fun: this book is every bit as good as _Legacy_, leaps and bounds better than Niven and Pournelle's last effort (_The Gripping Hand_), and, like all Niven/Pournelle collaborations, at least eight times as good as anything either author has ever written solo (better than the Niven/Barnes books, too, lest Barnes be forgotten).
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