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Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet.
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).
Two of his collaborations with Larry Niven reached the top rankings in the New York Times Best Seller List. In 1977, Lucifer's Hammer reached number two. [ citation needed ] Footfall — wherein Heinlein was a thinly veiled minor character — reached the number one spot in 1986.
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 ...
Limits is a collection of short stories and essays by science fiction author Larry Niven, originally published in 1985. "The Lion in his Attic" - Seventy-six years after Atlantis drowned, a sorceress and a prince learn to their dismay that not all lions eat red meat. "Spirals" - An early space colony loses its supply lines to budget cuts.
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven is a science fiction collection by American writer Larry Niven, collecting thirteen short stories published between 1964 and 1975 (all in Niven's Known Space future history) along with several essays by Niven and a chronology.
Larry Summers, the former United States Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard president, says: “I've been very troubled that at Harvard now the most common grade is a straight A.”
N-Space is a collection of short stories by American science fiction author Larry Niven released in 1990.Some of the stories are set in Niven's Known Space universe. Also included are various essays, articles and anecdotes by Niven and others, excerpts from some of his novels, and an introduction by Tom Clancy.