Protector by Larry Niven6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Niven has written that he invented the Protectors as a thought experiment to explain the common effects of aging on humans and to create a fictional evolutionary explanation for humans' long lives after females have passed reproductive age. The Pak also appear in several of Niven's later novels, notably those set in the Ringworld.ĭestroyer of Worlds depicts a confrontation between the Pak and the Puppeteers. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults", which appeared in Galaxy in 1967 this story was expanded into the novel Protector by Larry Niven (1973). Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. Phssthpok, a Pak Protector eating Tree-of-Life root in the Library on the Pak homeworld ![]()
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