On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:39 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote: > I've read Niven. > > He's a good SF writer, if not the best or second best prose stylist > in the > World. Nice guy, too. I've also read a lot of Niven. I concur with the above, although I have no reason to know his nice- guy-or-notness. Adam