On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 01:11:50 +0000 (UTC), Phil Pugliese
<xxxxxx@yahoo.com> wrote:

>What was the sci-fi author who wrote the series (was it 'Known Space'?)
>that had the 'Slavers'.Extinct for a long, long time but there were
>artifacts in the form of storage boxes that could preserve anything & I
>believe there was even a story concerning something that was stil alive!

That was Larry Niven. At least one of his Known Space stories ("The Soft
Weapon") was adapted to the animated Star Trek as "Slaver Weapon" (and
re-novelized under the same title as the story in _Star Trek Log Ten_). The
"slavers" were the Thrintun (adjectival same, singular "Thrint"), and the
story about the still-living Thrint was _World of Ptavvs_ (where "ptavv" is
the Thrintun word for "non-telepath").

(While he's quite good as a writer on his own, I've heard it said that he
was half of a better author - Jerry Pournelle was the other half.)

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