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In which the protagonist helped invent rock music and convinced a random black guy at the soda fountain to run for mayor, you mean? If Back to the Future taught me anything, changing history is fine so long as you don't accidentally flirt with your ancestors. :p

Y'know, I was too cruel to Pournelle. His politics, his writing style, and his (common among '70s authors because that was a commonly seen trend-line) "crime is everywhere, it will get worse and only people in fortress-towers who live in corporate feudalism are safe!111" message all rub me the...

Some of Niven's solo stuff has that problem (though wasn't one of Ringworld's themes that that was all hollow BS?), but I've read more of his short stories which are more like classic Asimov.

I haven't read that one, but most Pournelle/Niven collaborations I've read feel like Niven writing a good story and Pournelle shitting all over it with his "drunk racist uncle who won't stop ranting about how those people ruined California" politics.