- Lucas Garner
Lucas Launcelot Garner is a fictional character in
Larry Niven 's "Known Space " Universe.Born in 1939, he lived well into the 22nd century. This was because advances in medical science kept pushing his
life expectancy ahead of his age. He spent the last few decades of his life confined to a travel chair because medicine could replace every part of his body except his nervous system (which was slowly dying, from the legs up, ofold age ).Despite being over 160 years old, he made at least two trips into space in the early 22nd century. The first trip was to the outer solar system in pursuit of
Kzanol thethrint , after the latter was inadvertently released fromstasis . The second trip was to the planetMars in pursuit of Phssthpok, the Pak who had abducted BelterJack Brennan .He is friends with Belters
Lit Shaeffer andNick Sohl , both of whom served as First Speaker of The Belt on separate occasions.He served as a member of the ARM for over a century, first as an operative and later as a
supervisor . Immediately prior to hisretirement , he wasGil Hamilton 's boss.Garner is featured in the following novels:
*"World of Ptavvs "
*"Protector" and in the short story:
*"Intent to Deceive"He also plays a lesser role in the Gil Hamilton stories:
*"Death by Ecstasy "
*"The Defenseless Dead "with a
cameo appearance in:
*"The Patchwork Girl "
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