The Legacy of Heorot Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes Macdonald & Co 1988

The Legacy of Heorot Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes Macdonald & Co 1988

Light years from Earth, the pinnacle of mankind's genius is reached two hundred men and women carve an idyllic, self-sufficient colony out of the vast planet Tau Ceti Four.

Among the biologists, genetic engineers and farmers is one man who urges caution - Colonel Cadmann Weyland, a wariror among strangers...

They ignore his warnings and tear down his defenses until a monster of lightning speed and awesome brutality threatens to destroy their peaceful and fragile world. Now Weyland leads the colonists into a deadly, desperate battle that is only the beginning of Tau Ceti Four's nightmare....