Neutron Star (#12)


DateSettingTypePublishedI.U.C.
1966-10Known Space [all] Short StoryWorlds of If, October 1966
K.S. 22 (2644)


ReprintsCharactersAwardsNotes
anthology, Where Do We Go From Here? Ed. Isaac Asimov;
anthology, The Hugo Winners, ed. Isaac Asimov;
anthology, The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction, compiled by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg;
Anthology, Stories From The Hugo Winners Vol. 2, by Isaac Asimov, Fawcett, 1972;
French, Galaxie, Mars 1968, as "L'etoile Invisible";
in Galactica, Hungarian;
Speculations, ed. Thomas E. Sanders, Glencoe Press 1973;
Science Fiction. English and American Short Stories, ed. V. S. Muravyev, Moscow: Progress Publishers 1979;
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Beaufort 1984;
Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Bluejay 1986;
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Crown/Avenel 1987;
Cosmic Critiques, ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, Writer's Digest 1990;
The Super Hugos, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Baen 1992;
The SF Collection, ed. Edel Brosnan, Chancellor Press 1994;
World of Ptavvs/A Gift from Earth/Neutron Star
Neutron Star
Crashlander
Best of Larry Niven, The
 Beowulf Shaeffer;
Sigmund Ausfaller, puppeteers		 Hugo winnerEbook
First Beowulf Shaeffer story
first story set in the hyperdrive era of Known Space.


Summary
First published in Worlds of If, October 1966. This Hugo-winning story introduces one of Niven's favorite characters: Beowulf Shaeffer. Out-of-work star pilot Shaeffer is hired by the Puppeteers to find out what got through an impregnable General Products hull and killed the crew while they surveyed a neutron star.