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First edition (UK)
AuthorLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherGollancz (UK)
Simon & Schuster (US)
Publication date
May 01, 1987 (UK)
July 15, 1987 (US)
Media typePrint
Pages368
ISBN978-0-671-64094-1
OCLC15224359
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3564.I9 L4 1987
Followed byBeowulf's Children 

The Legacy of Heorot is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes, first published in 1987.[1] Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels.[2]

This is the first book in the Heorot series. It concerns the establishment of the first human colony on Avalon, the fourth planet of Tau Ceti.

  1. ^ "The Legacy of Heorot". Goodreads. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
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