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  • It's just as great as I remembered, a work of incredible imagination combined with a wicked wit (how can you not love the Puppeteers, an alien race so cowardly that their leader is called the Hindmost?)

    One Of These Things First 2008

  • I am called Hindmost, as any leader may be called Hindmost, "the puppeteer said," because he directs his people from safety, because safety is his prerogative and his duty, because his death or injury would be disaster for all.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • In repose the Hindmost was a smooth egg shape, covered in hide, with a cloud of white hair tufting the big end.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • "You and I and the Hindmost are the only ones in known space who know what the puppeteers have been doing, besides anyone either of us might have told."

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • I am called Hindmost, as any leader may be called Hindmost, "the puppeteer said," because he directs his people from safety, because safety is his prerogative and his duty, because his death or injury would be disaster for all.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • "You and I and the Hindmost are the only ones in known space who know what the puppeteers have been doing, besides anyone either of us might have told."

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • In repose the Hindmost was a smooth egg shape, covered in hide, with a cloud of white hair tufting the big end.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • Because I don't keep archives of all the magazines … I can't give a precise reference, but it was by Edward Chancellor, an economist who wrote "The Devil Take the Hindmost," which is a book about booms and busts.

    The Unique, Experiential, Anecdotal "You" « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • Edward Chancellor, author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, says, "Echo bubbles tend to be smaller and fade away faster than the first bubble."

    Boom and Gloom 2009

  • JJ: Despite the latest trend to vampires that are brooding and romantic, I prefer my vampires vicious and bloodthirsty—and that's what you get in Devil Take the Hindmost, my latest book from Pulpwork Press available at pulpworkpress.com, amazon.com or in various digital formats at Fictionwise.com.

    Joel Jenkins Interview Dark Worlds Club 2008

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