![]() ![]() Spoilers for Protector and later Known Space novels"".".protectors (the Pak) are humans that are way farther evolved than our version of humans, stronger and intelligent to a shocking degree. someone (presumably the Truesdale-Monster or some of his team) decided to clean the Tree-of-Life virus from Home's atmosphere. ![]() sometime in the centuries between Protector and Ringworld. ![]() However, in one of the later stories (maybe one of the Ringworld sequels?) there's a throwaway reference to Louis Wu visiting Home. In one of the anthologies (Tales of Known Space? It was one of the ones with the Bonnie Dalzell inside-cover artwork) there's a timeline or a map that lists the Home colony as "failed". Given the Pak protectors messed up goals and propensity for genocidal war, it's clear that the only safe number of protectors in any ecosystem or civilization is "no more than one". ![]() once the Pak fleet was destroyed they presumably had no further reason to live and suicided like Phsstpok was doing before he discovered the historical record of the colony asteroid. The protectors of Home were childless, so they didn't have an overwhelming instinct to Protect humanity beyond killing the Pak. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, 'the Prince of Intuition,' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, 'the Apostle of Proof'. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H.
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A woman celebrated her divorce by burning her wedding dress and telling her ex she's "the best he will ever have". ![]() ![]() ![]() My journey through the Newbery winners begins here with the Story of Mankind. He also had an informal style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes. ![]() As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial historical events and giving a complete picture of individual characters, as well as the role of the arts in history. However, he also wrote many other very popular books aimed at young adults. The book was later updated by Van Loon and has continued to be updated, first by his son and later by other historians. Most widely known among these is The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. He later became a professor of history at Cornell University (1915-17) and in 1919 became an American citizen.įrom the 1910s until his death, Van Loon wrote many books. 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