I used to have a copy of the original Niven short story in an old copy of Galaxy or If from 1966. It made good sense to change the Puppeteer character (I think it was an early appearance of Nessus) into Spock whan it was adapted for Star Trek.
Niven himself did the screenplay, which might account for the way it turned out. In the early 80s he also did the storyline for one arc of a syndicated Star Trek comic strip that's not available on the net, alas, though there are a fewfragmentsfloatingaround; the plot is here. The story included a species called the Bebebebeque, which later made several appearances in his Draco Tavern stories.
I'd love to see them, especially the Niven arc. There was apparently at least one effort to create such an archive, but the few links to it that remain go nowhere.
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Date: 2009-02-08 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-08 09:21 pm (UTC)I guess that makes me one of the six...
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Date: 2009-02-08 10:02 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll host those on my website some day...
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Date: 2009-02-09 03:24 am (UTC)daddytodd at gmail dot com
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Date: 2009-02-09 03:34 am (UTC)Are you going to IBR this year?