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| Author | Larry Niven |
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| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
Publication date | March 2, 1994 |
| ISBN | 978-0-345-38168-2 |
Crashlander is afix-up novel by American writerLarry Niven, published in 1994 (ISBN 978-0345381682) and set in hisKnown Space universe. It is also a term used in the Known Space universe, denoting a human born on the planetWe Made It.
Crashlander brings together the short stories featuring the space pilot Beowulf Shaeffer — "Neutron Star" (1966), "At the Core" (1966), "Flatlander" (1967), "Grendel" (1968), "The Borderland of Sol" (1975), and "Procrustes" (1993).
The stories are linked, and some of them extended, by a framing story, "Ghost". This story recounts Shaeffer's reunion with a ghostwriter whom Shaeffer had used to write about his adventures at the neutron star and at the core, Ander Smittarasheed. Ander, working forARM agent Sigmund Ausfaller, has come to question him about his dealings withPierson's Puppeteers,General Products and Carlos Wu, as well as what happened to Wu and ARM agent Feather Filip. Wu, Shaeffer and Sharrol Janss and their children, Tanya andLouis Wu, had secretly emigrated from Earth to the planet Fafnir to escape the control of Earth's United Nations government and the ARM.
"Neutron Star", "At The Core", "Flatlander"', and "Grendel" were previously included in the 1968 collectionNeutron Star.
Most of the stories in the collection are retold from the point of view of Sigmund Ausfaller inJuggler of Worlds.
A "Crashlander", in Known Space, is anyone from the planetWe Made It. As the names imply, the colonists who first settled the planet almost did not survive the landing.
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