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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.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Destroyer of Worlds
(Known Space)

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Juggler of Worlds
(Known Space)

Series

Ringworld
1. Ringworld (1970)
2. The Ringworld Engineers (1979)
3. The Ringworld Throne (1996)
4. Ringworld's Children (2004)
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
The Magic Goes Away (1978)
The Magic May Return (1981)
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 (1992)
aka The Voodoo Game

Known Space
1. The Integral Trees (1983)
2. The Smoke Ring (1987)
Fleet of Worlds (2007) (with Edward M Lerner)
Juggler of Worlds (2008) (with Edward M Lerner)
Destroyer of Worlds (2009) (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 (1984)

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

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 (1997)
Rammer (1997)
Rainbow Mars (1999)
Saturn's Race (2000) (with Steven Barnes)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) (with Brenda Cooper)

Omnibus

World of Ptavvs / A Gift from Earth / Neutron Star (1991)

Collections

Chapbooks

All the Myriad Ways (1979)

Graphic Novels

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

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: Man-Kzin Wars VIII (1998)
9. Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002)
10. Wunder War: Man-Kzin Wars X (2003) (with Hal Colebatch)
11. Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005)
12. Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009)
The Best of All Possible Wars: The Best of the Man-Kzin Wars (1998)

Anthologies edited

The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: Thirteen Prizewinning Stories (1976 - 1979) (1985) (with Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree Jr and Roger Zelazny)

Anthologies containing stories by Larry Niven

Nebula Award Stories 1 (1966)
Dangerous Visions 2 (1967)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 190 (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 Golden Road (1973)
The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 (1973)
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 Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
The Hugo Winners 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (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 (1984)
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)
How to Save the World (1995)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Sisters of the Night (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
Supernatural Sleuths (1996)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1997)
Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written (1997)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
Armageddons (1999)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000)

Short stories

	Becalmed In Hell (1965)		Nebula (nominee)
	Wrong Way Street (1965)		Nebula (nominee)
	At the Core (1966)
	Neutron Star (1966)		Hugo
	A Relic of the Empire (1966)
	The Ethics of Madness (1967)
	Flatlander (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 (1968)		Hugo (nominee)
	Grendel (1968)
	Wait It Out (1968)
	Death by Ecstasy (1969)
	The Flight of the Horse (1969)
	Not Long Before the End (1969)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Leviathan (1970)
	The Fourth Profession (1971)		Hugo (nominee)
	Inconstant Moon (1971)		Hugo
	Rammer (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 (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)
	Bordered in Black
	Cautionary Tales
	Convergent Series
	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

Awards

	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1966) : Wrong Way Street
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1966) : Becalmed In Hell
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1967) : Neutron Star
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1968) : The Jigsaw Man
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1968) : Flatlander
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1969) : All the Myriad Ways
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1970) : Not Long Before the End
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1970) : Not Long Before the End
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1971) : Ringworld
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1971) : Ringworld
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1972) : Inconstant Moon
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1972) : The Fourth Profession
	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 Novellette winner (1976) : The Borderland of Sol
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1976) : ARM
	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
	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) 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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