Hey, that was a great book.
A part of Niven’s “Known Space” made it into the Star Trek universe. The animated series had an episode called “Slaver Weapon” which was based entirely on Niven’s story, “Slaver Weapon”.
The slavers, of course, were the Thrintun from “World of Ptavvs”.
Well, if I knew where to get that, I’d read it.
Then you and I could share something besides *ahem* words.