Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (Los Angeles, California, april 30, 1938) is an American science fictionand fantasy writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), with which he the Hugo,Nebula and Locus Awards won.

Larry Niven has mathematics degree from the Washburn University in Kansas until 1962. Since that time he has lived in Los Angeles.

Niven has from 1964, when he debuted with the story The Coldest Place, many SF-writtennovels and short stories . With Neutron Star (1967), Inconstant Moon (1972) and The Hole Man (1975) won the Hugo for best short story and with The borderland or Sol in 1976 the Hugo for best novelette. The Integral Trees brought Niven his second Locus for best SF novel.

Niven has also written screenplays for various SF television series, such as Star Trekand Land of the Lost , The Outer Limits.

Many stories by Niven in his known space (Known Space)-universe, in which humanity the solar systems in a radius of about 60 light years around our Sun shares with a dozen alien species. Also the Ring world trilogy takes place in this universe.

Niven also has a series of fantasy books written that play in the Warlock's Era. In the game Magic: The Gathering with a map for the Nevinyrral's Diskname, where the name Larry Niven spelled backwards. The map destroys everything around him, just as the Warlock's Disc from Nivens series all magic around pad. This is not the only example of the use of its name in other work. In the novel The Forge of God by Greg Bear is one "Lawrence of Cott" for. A part of the computer game Wing Commander II plays in the "Niven Sector". On the other hand, Niven numbers are named after Ivan m. Niven.

His later works are mostly written in collaboration with Steven Barnes , Jerry Pournelleand/or Edward m. Lerner.

Main prices

Hugo Award

• Neutron Star (1967)-short story
• Ringworld (1971)-novel
• Inconstant Moon (1972)-short story
• The Hole Man (1975)-short story
• The Borderland of Sol (1976)-novelette

Nebula Award

• Ringworld (1971)-novel

Locus Award

• Ringworld (1971)-SF novel
• Convergent Series (1980)-single author collection
• The Integral Trees (1985) – SF novel
• The Missing Mass (2001)-short story

Bibliography

Novels

Known Space series

• World of Ptavvs (1966-en:Kzanol, the space pirate and later the world of Ptavvs)
• A Gift from Earth (1968-en:a gift from the Earth)
• Neutron Star (1968-en:Neutron star bundle)
• All the Myriad Ways (1971-bundle)
• Protector (1973-en:Patron)
• Tales of Known Space (1975-bundle)
• The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976-en:the long Arm of Gil Hamilton bundle)
• The Patchwork Girl (1980)
• Fleet of Worlds (2007) (with Edward m. Lerner)
• Juggler of Worlds (2008) (with Edward m. Lerner)
• Destroyer of Worlds (2009) (with Edward m. Lerner)
• Betrayer or Worlds (2010) (with Edward m. Lerner)
• Fate of Worlds (2012) (with Edward m. Lerner)

Ringworld series

[1][2]Ringworld*Ringworld (1970-en:Ringworld)

• The Ringworld Engineers (1980-en:builders of Ringworld)
• The Ringworld Throne (1996-en:protectors of Ringworld)
• Ringworld's Children (2004-en:children of Ringworld)

The Mote in God's Eye series (with Jerry Pournelle)

• The Mote in God's Eye (1974-en:the mote in God's eye) (with contributions by Robert Heinlein)
• The Gripping Hand (1994-en:the Hand that Takes)

The Magic Goes Away series

• The Magic Goes Away (1978-en:the demise of the Magicians)
• The Burning City (2000-en:The burning city) (with Jerry Pournelle)
• Burning Tower (2005) (with Jerry Pournelle)

Dream Parks series (with Steven Barnes)

• Dream Park (1981)
• The Barsoom Project (1989)
• The California Voodoo Game (1992)

Heorot series

• The Legacy of Heorot (1987-en:Heorot) (with Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle)
• Beowulf's Children (1995-en:The Dragons of Heorot) (with Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle) also issued as The Dragons of Heorot
• Destiny's Road (1997-nl:For country road)

Integral Trees series

• A World Out of Time (1976-en:out of time)
• The Integral Trees (1984-en:the integral trees)
• The Smoke Ring (1987:The non-circle -en)

Inferno series (with Jerry Pournelle)

• Inferno (1976-en:Inferno)
• Escape from Hell (2009)

Other novels

• The Flying Sorcerers (1971) (with David Gerrold)
• Lucifer's Hammer (1977-en:Lucifer's Hammer) (with Jerry Pournelle)
• Oath of Fealty (1981) (with Jerry Pournelle)
• The Magic May Return (1981) (editor)
• The Descent of Anansi (1982) (with Steven Barnes)
• Footfall (1985-en:Prostration) (with Jerry Pournelle)
• Berserker Base (1985) (with Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Stephen r. Donaldson, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny)
• Achilles ' Choice (1991) (with Steven Barnes)
• Fallen Angels (1991) (with Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn) electronic version for free at Baen Free Library.
• Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992) (humorous book, with John Byrne)
• Three Books of Known Space (1996) with World of Ptavvs, A Gift from Earth and Tales of Known Space
• Rainbow Mars (1999-en:the tree of life)
• Saturn's Race (2000) (with Steven Barnes)
• Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) (with Brenda Cooper)

Short story collections

• The Shape of Space (1969)
• The Flight of the Horse (1973)
• Inconstant Moon (1973)
• A Hole in Space (1974)
• Convergent Series (1979)
• More Magic (1984) (editor)
• Niven's Laws (1984)
• Limits (1985)
• N-Space (1990)
• Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
• Crashlander (1994)
• Flatlander (1995)
• Scatterbrain (2003)
• The Draco Tavern (2006)