[Jayne Greye]

Just finished “Achilles Choice” which if from the perspective of a female. Near future novel where athletes must decide to be enhanced or not. If they win the Olympics they are hooked to a computer system and live a long life – if not they die in about eight years. Not a bad novel, though it needed to be flushed out some but good discussion of her muscle throughout

[Nick Furry]

Nice cover for this book. Talked about above.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakon_(novel)

[stevexyz]

Here are my copies of what should be grammatically correctly titled ACHILLES’S CHOICE (IMHO):

[Jayne Greye]

lol I think you are right regarding the grammar. You have 5 more copies than I do. 🙂 Were there more drawings in some than other editions? Hopefully people will collect my book someday too. 🙂

[stevexyz]

All the editions have black and white sketches by Boris in them illustrating the story, although they are crude compared to the cover painting.
I read the book, but all I remember about it is being disappointed with the before and after descriptions of the serum or treatment or whatever the girl got.

[AlexG]

All the editions have black and white sketches by Boris in them illustrating the story, although they are crude compared to the cover painting.
I read the book, but all I remember about it is being disappointed with the before and after descriptions of the serum or treatment or whatever the girl got.

As an author of SF, I’m not much of a Larry Niven fan. And Steven Barnes? Who? 😉

That said, by the same token I can’t recall someone mentioning that any of Niven’s stories had FM as a (prominent?) part of them, unlike say, S.M. Stirling or Robert Adams.

If you’re not an enthusiast about such things as FM and/or FMG, it’s not likely to be an significant part of the story..

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[stevexyz]

I thought early Niven novels and stories were very good to excellent, especially THE LEGACY OF HEOROT, but I found DESTINY’S ROAD and the few novels of his I tried after that one totally unreadable, so I stopped reading him.

[AlexG]

I thought early Niven novels and stories were very good to excellent, especially THE LEGACY OF HEOROT, but I found DESTINY’S ROAD and the few novels of his I tried after that one totally unreadable, so I stopped reading him.

That seems to be a common factor with several (many?) prolific authors – they just don’t know when to gracefully retire from the scene. Clive Cussler is one that comes first to my mind – his early stuff, fantastic, but after “Treasure”, his works really started to slope off in quality. Robert Heinlein was another that who’s talent greatly diminished toward the end. The sole exception being “Friday” (ironically, his only story w/ an enhanced fem-muscular character as the central figure of the story) which I suspect he had already rough drafted before the publication of “Time Enough for Love”, his last great novel.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[stevexyz]

Add Orson Scott Card to that list.
I’ve read both FRIDAY and TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE, and all I remember from both of them was the great American West Pilgrim Portion of TEFL.

This has nothing to do with female muscle (unfortunately), but here’s a small portion of my Niven PAPERBACK collection:

[AlexG]

Nice! B)

Reminds me of the filled shelves here w/ my collected works by James P Hogan, Keith Laumer. Clifford Simak and Robert Adams.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

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