Talk:Grendel (Niven)

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[edit] Grogs

A couple of the other passengers on the Argos are Grogs. One wonders why they didn't know all about the kidnapping plot, or why they didn't tell anyone. I guess one moral of the story is that a sci-fi or fantasy writer should hesitate before giving large numbers of his characters some super-power like reading minds, because after that, every story has to be carefully examined for reasons why the super-power won't spoil it. In The Soft Weapon, Niven avoided this problem by having the Kzinti telepath critically wounded and tossed into suspended animation in the middle of the story.