The Flying Sorcerers
by David Gerrold, Larry Niven · first published 2009
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…idea for the Library on the Pak Protector homeworld (Protector) for persisting knowledge through constant warfare. And with David Gerrold (who wrote The Trouble with Tribbles Star Trek episode), The Flying Sorcerers, with "pull up" lines: needing to make the things to make the other things. (Niven's Ringworld also has a problem with restarting civilization: no ore beneath the surface - though, why not use rusted…
on “A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster” ↗Also wrote The Flying Sorcerers with Larry Niven, relevant to the top comment, being about kickstarting an alien industrial revolution.
on “Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi” ↗