Editing Crashlander (section)

==Plot summary==
''Crashlander'' brings together the short stories featuring the space pilot [[List_of_Known_Space_characters#Beowulf_Shaeffer|Beowulf Shaeffer]] &mdash; "[[Neutron Star (short story)|Neutron Star]]" (1966), "[[At the Core]]" (1966), "[[Flatlander (short story)|Flatlander]]" (1967), "[[Grendel (short story)|Grendel]]" (1968), "[[The Borderland of Sol]]" (1975), and "[[Procrustes (short story)|Procrustes]]" (1993).

The stories are linked, and some of them extended, by a framing story, "Ghost". This story recounts Shaeffer's reunion with a ghostwriter whom Shaeffer had used to write about his adventures at the neutron star and at the core, Ander Smittarasheed. Ander, working for [[Amalgamated Regional Militia|ARM]] agent Sigmund Ausfaller, has come to question him about his dealings with [[Pierson's Puppeteer]]s, [[General Products (Larry Niven)|General Products]] and Carlos Wu, as well as what happened to Wu and ARM agent Feather Filip. Wu, Shaeffer and Sharrol Janss and their children, Tanya and [[Louis Wu]], had secretly emigrated from Earth to the planet Fafnir to escape the control of Earth's United Nations government and the ARM.

"Neutron Star", "At The Core", "Flatlander"', and "Grendel" were previously included in the 1968 collection ''[[Neutron Star (short story collection)|Neutron Star]]''.

Most of the stories in the collection are retold from the point of view of Sigmund Ausfaller in ''[[Juggler of Worlds]]''.