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Larry Niven

(Laurence Van Cott Niven)

(1938 - )

About Larry Niven

Born in Los Angeles in 1938, Larry Niven has been a full-time writer since leaving UCLA in 1963. A worldwide bestseller, he is best known for the legendary RINGWORLD series, which THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION called "the most energetic future history series ever written". A multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards, Niven was once named by Arthur C Clarke as his favourite author, and his rigorous scientific consistency has earned a reputation as the premier modern author of "hard" SF.

Series

Ringworld
1. Ringworld (1970)
2. The Ringworld Engineers (1979)
3. The Ringworld Throne (1996)
4. Ringworld's Children (2004)
5. Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld (2012) (with Edward M Lerner)
Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994) (with Kevin Stein)

Moties (with Jerry Pournelle)
1. The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
2. The Gripping Hand (1993)
aka The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye

Inferno (with Jerry Pournelle)
1. Inferno (1976)
2. Escape from Hell (2009)

Magic Goes Away
1. The Magic Goes Away (1978)
2. The Magic May Return (1981)
3. More Magic (1984)
The Magic Goes Away Collection (omnibus) (2005)

Dream Park (with Steven Barnes)
1. Dreampark (1981)
2. The Barsoom Project (1989)
3. The California Voodoo Game (1991)
aka The Voodoo Game
4. The Moon Maze Game (2011)

Known Space
1. The Integral Trees (1984)
1. Fleet of Worlds (2007) (with Edward M Lerner)
2. The Smoke Ring (1987)
2. Juggler of Worlds (2008) (with Edward M Lerner)
3. Destroyer of Worlds (2009) (with Edward M Lerner)
4. Betrayer of Worlds (2010) (with Edward M Lerner)

Berserker (with Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Stephen Donaldson, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny)
6. Berserker Base: A Collaberative Novel (1985)

Heorot
1. The Legacy of Heorot (1987) (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle)
2. The Dragons of Heorot (1995) (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle)
aka Beowulf's Children
The Secret of Black Ship Island (2012) (with Jerry Pournelle)

Golden Road (with Jerry Pournelle)
1. The Burning City (2000)
2. Burning Tower (2005)

Novels

The World of Ptavvs (1966)
A Gift from Earth (1968)
The Flying Sorcerers (1971) (with David Gerrold)
Protector (1973)
A World Out of Time (1976)
Lucifer's Hammer (1977) (with Jerry Pournelle)
The Patchwork Girl (1980)
Oath of Fealty (1981) (with Jerry Pournelle)
The Descent of Anansi (1982) (with Steven Barnes)
The Time of the Warlock (1984)
Footfall (1985) (with Jerry Pournelle)
Achilles' Choice (1991) (with Steven Barnes)
Fallen Angels (1991) (with Michael Flynn and Jerry Pournelle)
Destiny's Road (1995)
Rammer (1997)
Rainbow Mars (1999)
Saturn's Race (2000) (with Steven Barnes)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) (with Brenda Cooper)
Bowl of Heaven (2012) (with Gregory Benford)
The Goliath Stone (2013) (with Matthew Joseph Harrington)

Omnibus

Three Trips in Time and Space (1973) (with John Brunner and Jack Vance)
World of Ptavvs / A Gift from Earth / Neutron Star (1991)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Collections

Chapbooks

All the Myriad Ways (1977)

Graphic Novels

Death By Ecstasy: Illustrated Adaptation of the Larry Niven Novella (1991)
Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1998) (with John L Byrne)

Novellas

No Exit: The Classic Science Fantasy (2009)

Series contributed to

Man-Kzin
1. The Man-Kzin Wars (1988)
2. The Man-Kzin Wars II (1989)
3. Man Kzin Wars III (1990)
4. Man-kzin Wars IV (1991)
5. Man-Kzin Wars V (1992)
6. Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) (with Gregory Benford)
7. Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995)
8. Choosing Names (1998)
9. Man-Kzin Wars IX (2001)
10. Wunder War (2003) (with Hal Colebatch)
11. Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005)
12. Man-Kzin Wars XII (2008)
13. Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2012)
14. Man-Kzin Wars XIV (2013)
The Best of All Possible Wars (1998)

Anthologies containing stories by Larry Niven

Nebula Award Stories 1 (1966)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 190 (1967)
Dangerous Visions 2 (1967)
Seven Trips Through Time and Space (1968)
World's Best Science Fiction 1968 (1968)
Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year (1972)
The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 (1973)
The Golden Road (1974)
Antigrav: Cosmic Comedies by SF Masters (1975)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (1975)
The Best from Galaxy, Volume IV (1976)
The Best from If, Volume III (1976)
Galaxy Science Fiction Vol. 37 No. 8 (1976)
The Hugo Winners 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (1977)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
The Best of Analog (1978)
The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
Aliens! (1980)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1980 (1981)
Unicorns! (1982)
Sci-Fi Private Eye (1984)
Top Science Fiction (1985)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
The Man-Kzin Wars (1988)
A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989 (1990)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993)
Isaac Asimov's War (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
How to Save the World (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
Sisters of the Night (1995)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
Supernatural Sleuths (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written (1997)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
Armageddons (1999)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000)

Short stories

	Bordered in Black
	Cautionary Tales
	Convergent Series [short story]
	The Deadlier Weapon
	Dry Run
	Like Banquo's Ghost
	The Meddler
	Night on Mispec Moor
	The Nonesuch
	One Face
	The Schumann Computer
	Singularities Make Me Nervous
	Transfer of Power
	Becalmed In Hell (1965)		Nebula (nominee)
	Wrong Way Street (1965)		Nebula (nominee)
	At the Core (1966)
	Neutron Star [short story] (1966)		Hugo
	A Relic of the Empire (1966)
	The Ethics of Madness (1967)
	Flatlander [short story] (1967)		Nebula (nominee)
	Handicap (1967)
	The Handicapped (1967)
	The Jigsaw Man (1967)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Long Night (1967)
	Safe at Any Speed (1967)
	The Soft Weapon (1967)
	All the Myriad Ways [short story] (1968)		Hugo (nominee)
	Grendel (1968)
	Wait It Out (1968)
	Death by Ecstasy [short story] (1969)
	The Flight of the Horse [short story] (1969)
	Not Long Before the End (1969)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula (nominee)
	Leviathan (1970)
	The Fourth Profession (1971)		Hugo (nominee)
	Inconstant Moon [short story] (1971)		Hugo
	Rammer [short story] (1971)
	There's a Wolf in My Time Machine (1971)
	Cloak of Anarchy (1972)
	What Good Is a Glass Dagger? (1972)
	The Alibi Machine (1973)
	The Hole Man (1974)		Hugo
	A Kind of Murder (1974)
	Plaything (1974)
	ARM (1975)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Borderland of Sol (1975)		Hugo
	The Children of the State (part 3) (1976)
	Down and Out (1976)
	Mistake (1976)
	Cruel and Unusual (1977)
	Grammar Lesson (1977)
	Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation (1977)
	The Subject is Closed (1977)
	The Magic Goes Away [short story] (1978)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Locusts (1979) (with Steven Barnes)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Green Marauder (1980)
	The Real Thing (1982)
	The Integral Trees (part 3 of 4) (1983)
	The Integral Trees (part 4 of 4) (1984)
	The Warriors (1988)
	Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing (1989)
	The Return of William Proxmire (1989)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Wishing Game (1989)
	Madness Has Its Place (1990)
	Procrustes (1993)
	The South Los Angeles Broadcasting System (1993)
	Song of the Night People (1995)

Awards

	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1966) : Becalmed In Hell
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1966) : Wrong Way Street
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1967) : Neutron Star [short story]
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1968) : The Jigsaw Man
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1968) : Flatlander [short story]
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1969) : All the Myriad Ways [short story]
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1970) : Not Long Before the End
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1970) : Not Long Before the End
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1971) : Ringworld
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1971) : Ringworld
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1972) : The Fourth Profession
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1972) : Inconstant Moon [short story]
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1974) : Protector
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1975) : The Hole Man
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1975) : The Mote in God's Eye
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1976) : ARM
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1976) : The Borderland of Sol
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1976) : Inferno
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Mote in God's Eye
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1977) : Inferno
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1978) : Lucifer's Hammer
	World Fantasy Best Short story nominee (1979) : The Magic Goes Away [short story]
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1980) : The Locusts
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1981) : The Ringworld Engineers
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1983) : Oath of Fealty
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Integral Trees
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Integral Trees
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1986) : Footfall
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1990) : The Return of William Proxmire
	Prometheus Award Best Novel winner (1992) : Fallen Angels

Books about Larry Niven

A Larry Niven Checklist (1994) by Chris Drumm
Annals of the Man-Kzin-Wars: An Unofficial Companion Guide (2001) by Alan Michaud

Links to other websites

Known Space

Larry Niven recommends

Silverlock (1949) (Silverlock, book 1) John Myers Myers "Bigger than life."	The Broken Lands (1968) (Empire of the East, book 1) Fred Saberhagen "I think Empire of the East is better than The Lord of the Rings."	A Lion on Tharthee (1987) (Saturnalia, book 2) Grant Callin "Grant Callin's universe is a fascinating one; I look forward to seeing more of it."
Harvest of Stars (1992) (Harvest of Stars, book 1) Poul Anderson "A masterpiece!"	Wheelers (2000) (Lifesoul Cherisher, book 1) Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart "Wheelers is wonderful."	Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America (2002) Steven Barnes "LION'S BLOOD is [Steven Barnes'] masterwork as a solo flight."
What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (2002) Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart "I loved it."

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