num_pages: 218
description: Cover Artist: Dean EllisPublisher's NotePhssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first...He was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time.
language: English
title: Protector
titlecomplete: Protector (Known Space)
characters: Jack Brennan, Phssthpok the Pak, Luke Garner
genres: Space, Speculative Fiction, Collections, Aliens, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 10324
series: Known Space (Publication Order), Known Space
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best International Long Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books