I didn't notice right away: the vampire scent was gone, but we had our own smells by then. Two-tenths of night passed this way, I think. But this is thin, very thin, and it’s basically a fixup novel, composed of two short stories poorly linked together. Niven attempts to tie these two together by having the goblins carry off a spoil from the vampire eviction that then seems to inform a part of the later protector duel. The second half of the book is Louis Wu picking a new head protector for the ringworld through pseudo-orchestrating a big protector fight. One plot, the first half of the book, is all sex and violence as a sex-solidified-coalition attempts to take down a vampire infestation that grew when Louis Wu boiled the sea and blocked out the sun. This book differs from the two preceding it by using a pair of plots.
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