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Niven at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, 2007. Laurence van Cott Niven (/ ˈ n ɪ v ən /; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. [2] His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977).
Destiny's Road (1997) (by Niven alone; not precisely a continuation of the Heorot series: located in the same universe, events from the first two novels are briefly mentioned) (book 3) The Secret of Black Ship Island (2012) (novella; with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle ) (release order book 4) (stated book “1.5” in series ie. should be ...
The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974.The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species.
Dream Park is a 1981 sci-fi/murder mystery novel by American writers Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, set in a futuristic amusement park of the same name. It was nominated for the 1982 Locus Award [1] and later expanded into a series of cyberpunk murder mysteries: The Barsoom Project (1989), The California Voodoo Game (1992), and The Moon Maze Game (2011).
Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space 186 million miles (299 million kilometres) in diameter.
Lucifer's Hammer is a science fiction post-apocalypse-survival novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle that was first published in 1977. [2] It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. [3] Two issues of a planned six-part comic book adaptation were published by Innovation Comics in 1993. [4]
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories by American writer Larry Niven.It has also become a shared universe in the spin-off Man-Kzin Wars anthologies.
The Bandersnatch (plural bandersnatchi) is a fictional alien species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. [8] The species is named for Lewis Carroll's Bandersnatch. Niven's first story to discuss the Bandersnatchi was World of Ptavvs, published in 1966. [9] That story relates the way that they were named as follows: