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287:) for observation at the Puppeteer's insistence. While explaining tidal forces to the Puppeteer, Schaeffer realizes the alien had no knowledge of tides, something that would be elementary for a sentient species living on a world with a moon. The Puppeteers are extremely cautious when dealing with other species, and keep all details about their homeworld secret. When Schaeffer mentions that he can tell reporters the fact that the Puppeteer's world has no moon, the Puppeteer agrees to give Shaeffer a million stars (a fortune in galactic currency) in return for his silence. Shaeffer asks the alien how he likes being 310:
collection, Schaeffer is told that the Puppeteers were well aware of the tidal effect. The actual motive for them paying for Shaeffer's silence was that if they did not, he would realize this. By paying him, they could both shut him up and disseminate false information about the Puppeteer
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Neutron stars are featured in a number of science fiction stories. These are the small remnants of supernovae, a few kilometers in diameter, which are made up exclusively of neutrons. Larry Niven's "Neutron Star" (1966) describes the dangers of flying a spaceship too close to such an
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is an operative of the UN's Bureau of Alien Affairs. Desiring to maintain human-Puppeteer relations, Ausfaller explains the situation to them, and has them install a bomb on the ship. Ausfaller informs Shaeffer that if he does not attempt the mission, he will be sent to
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BVS-1. The Puppeteers want to determine why two previous researchers, Peter and Sonya Laskin, were killed during the previous attempt on a similar mission. Shaeffer has no intention of even attempting the dangerous mission but agrees anyway β€” he has other plans.
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collection, Niven writes: "I keep meeting people who have done mathematical treatments of the problem raised in the short story 'Neutron Star' ... Alas and dammit, Shaeffer can't survive. It turns out that his ship leaves the star spinning, and keeps the
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of the ship in effective free fall, though he nearly fails to do so. The ship reaches periapsis where tidal forces nearly pull Shaeffer apart anyway, but he manages to hold himself in the access space at the ship's center of mass and survives.
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to his precise specifications, supposedly to ensure he survives to return with the relevant data. It includes an advanced sensor package, a high-powered thruster, and a high-powered laser. It is thus the only
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criticized "Neutron Star" for assuming that tidal forces produced by gravity would be forgotten, and that a crewed ship would not be the first to explore a neutron star.
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with BVS-1, passing a mile above its surface. During the descent, Schaeffer notices many unusual things: the stars ahead of him began to turn blue from
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as his speed increases enormously; the stars behind him, rather than being red-shifted, were blue too as their light accelerated with him into the
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of the neutron star. The nose of the ship is pulled towards the neutron star even when he tries to move the ship to view his surroundings.
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The first science fiction story to feature a neutron star is Larry Niven's "Neutron Star", published in Worlds of If, October 1966.
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After returning to We Made It, Shaeffer is hospitalized (he has received a sunburn by starlight blue-shifted into the
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ever constructed by the cowardly and paranoid alien race β€” a prize beyond value and a perfect means of escape.
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy: themes, works, and wonders
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As the mysterious pull exceeds one Earth gravity, Shaeffer accelerates the
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stories. It also marked the first appearance of the nearly indestructible
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before their (then hypothetical) existence was widely known.
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reaches the neutron star, and the ship's autopilot puts the
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The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
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to compensate for the unknown X-force until he is in
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Regional President of General Products on We Made It
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Index

Short story
Larry Niven
Worlds of If
English language
science fiction
short story
Larry Niven
Worlds of If
the collection of the same name
Crashlander
Known Space
neutron star
Beowulf Shaeffer
General Products
Pierson's Puppeteers
Protector
Juggler of Worlds
Beowulf Shaeffer
stock market crash
Regional President of General Products on We Made It
neutron star
Sigmund Ausfaller
debtors' prison
hyperbolic orbit
periapsis
Doppler shift
gravity well
free fall
gees
tidal force

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