Heorot Series [1-4] Legacy of Heorot, Secret of Black Ship Island, Beowulf’s Children, Starborn and Godsons - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

Written by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Read by Tom Weiner, Tom Taylorson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

>First 3 books are 64k, Starborn & Godson is 128k.

The Legacy of Heorot
By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Series: Heorot, Book 1
Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 09-17-12
Language: English

Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space.

Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.

1987 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

The Secret of Black Ship Island
Heorot, Book 2
By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Series: Heorot, Book 3
Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 11-01-12
Language: English

This novella by three celebrated authors in the science-fiction genre is set between the events of The Legacy of Heorot - which Tom Clancy called “outstanding” - and Beowulf’s Children.

The oldest children of the settlers on Avalon are now in their late teens and want independence from their parents and guardians. And they especially don’t want them around for the initiation ceremony held on Black Ship Island for the younger children just reaching their teens. But when previously unknown creatures make their deadly appearance, things go horribly wrong.

2012 Jerry Pournelle, Jerry Pournelle, and Larry Niven (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc

Beowulf’s Children
By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Series: Heorot, Book 3
Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 10-09-12
Language: English

“Once upon a long, long time ago, our parents and grandparents left a place called Earth. They traveled across the stars in a ship called Geographic to find paradise.”

A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out to explore the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.

Avalon does not give up her secrets easily, and some of those mysteries are wicked as sin and blacker than the grave.

1995 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Starborn and Godsons
By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
Series: Heorot, Book 4
Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 04-07-20
Language: English

Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named “grendels” were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon’s new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive.

They would not survive as a spacefaring people.

What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth’s solar system.

This is a novel of first contact - between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon-born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world….

2020 Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. Introduction © 2020 by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing