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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).
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.
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.
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:
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. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Niven demonstrated this, to his own satisfaction, with "Safe at Any Speed" (1967). [12] He used the setting for much less short fiction after 1968 [a] and much less for novels after two published in 1980. [1] Late in that decade, Niven invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the Man–Kzin Wars as their ...
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).
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003) Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003) Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003) The Draco Tavern (2006) Stars and Gods (August 2010) The Best of Larry Niven (November 2010) Red Tide (October 2014). With Brad R. Torgersen & Matthew J. Harrington; Madness from the Inconstant Moon: A Collection of ...