Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Legacy of Heorot is a science fiction novel written in 1987 by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes. Noted reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien protagonists, the grendels. This is the first book in the Heorot Series. It concerns the establishment of the first human colony on an uncharted, seemingly peaceful planet. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.