Crashlander
Crashlander is a
Plot summary
Crashlander brings together the short stories featuring the space pilot Beowulf Shaeffer — "Neutron Star" (1966), "At the Core" (1966), "Flatlander" (1967), "Grendel" (1968), "The Borderland of Sol" (1975), and "Procrustes" (1993).
The stories are linked, and some of them extended, by a framing story, "Ghost". This story recounts Shaeffer's reunion with a ghostwriter whom Shaeffer had used to write about his adventures at the neutron star and at the core, Ander Smittarasheed. Ander, working for
"Neutron Star", "At The Core", "Flatlander"', and "Grendel" were previously included in the 1968 collection Neutron Star.
Most of the stories in the collection are retold from the point of view of Sigmund Ausfaller in Juggler of Worlds.
Crashlander (in-universe term)
A "Crashlander", in Known Space, is anyone from the planet
See also
- Flatlander (in-universe term)
- Belter (in-universe term)
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