Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld

Larry Niven

ISBN 10: 0671722050 / ISBN 13: 9780671722050

Published by Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company), 1995

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With the electrifying tales of 15 survivors of catastrophic human cruelty at its narrative core, Unspeakable Truths & Happy Endings resoundingly illuminates both the necessity and difficulty of compassionate, sensible listening to survivors' tales of trauma.The book journalistically explores the affects of survivors's stories on compassionate listeners -- a group that includes therapists but that also includes friends, family, and even survivors themselves as they work and re-work the realities of their own experience. Along the way, the book addresses the flip side of compassionate listening; squabbles about victimhood and recovered memory. The book concludes that, as thinking and caring inhabitants of a menacing world, we must all learn to hear unspeakable truths. At the same time that we risk accepting the truths about violence and degradation that survivors' memories hold, we must reasonably engage critical thinking when memories of violence and degradation stretch the limits of our credulity. We owe it to survivors to listen compassionately; we owe it to ourselves to listen prudently.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671722050
• ISBN 13: 9780671722050
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Todd Cameron Hamilton; James Clouse
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Guides readers through Ringworld, a land area of seven million Earths populated by strange and wonderful beings. By the author of Tales of Known Space.