Edward M. Lerner

Fate of Worlds is the fifth and final installment of Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner's Fleet of Worlds series and to Niven's original Ringworld series.For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact—and grandest prize—in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and …

Kyle Gustafson had been doing work he loved, with the space program, anemic though it was, until disaster struck and a shuttle was lost on takeoff. There had to be a fall guy, and Kyle was picked-but a few months later, the American space program instantly became a quaint relic when aliens in a gigantic starship …