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    link] Larry Niven at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Larry Niven at the Internet Book List Works by Larry Niven at Open Library Larry Niven at...
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  • A list of works by, or about, the American science fiction author Larry Niven. World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968 collection)...
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  • Niven's laws were named after science fiction author Larry Niven, who has periodically published them as "how the Universe works" as far as he can tell...
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  • fictional alien race from American author Larry Niven's Known Space books. The race first appeared in Niven’s novella Neutron Star. The sobriquet "Pierson's"...
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  • Ringworld (redirect from Niven ring)
    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...
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    his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy...
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    influenced Tolkien – you might as well try to influence a bandersnatch." In Larry Niven's Known Space series (1965 to present), there is a heavy-gravity species...
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  • a list of fictional characters featured in the Known Space novels by Larry Niven. Sigmund Ausfaller, a native of Earth, is a member of the Amalgamated...
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  • fiction novels and several collections of short stories by American writer Larry Niven. It has also become a shared universe in the spin-off Man-Kzin Wars anthologies...
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    class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years. Niven fixed these errors in...
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  • government in a future history that forms the back-story of three of Larry Niven's novels: A World Out of Time (1976), The Integral Trees (1984), and The...
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    1970s The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970) Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971) To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (1972) The Gods...
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  • Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966) "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven (1967) "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison (1968)...
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  • next-most nominations by a winning author are held by Robert J. Sawyer and Larry Niven, who have been nominated nine and eight times, respectively, and have...
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  • and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults", which...
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  • Asimov (1983) Startide Rising by David Brin (1984) The Integral Trees by Larry Niven (1985) The Postman by David Brin (1986) Speaker for the Dead by Orson...
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  • series is a series of science fiction novels written by American author Larry Niven. It is part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld...
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  • concept and development, it resembles top-notch Arthur C. Clarke or Larry Niven but with a perspective—plots, mysteries, conspiracies, murders, revelations...
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    Policy, chaired by Jerry Pournelle, which met at the home of SF writer Larry Niven to write space policy papers for the incoming Reagan administration....
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  • Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee. Barnes subsequently collaborated with Niven on several other books, including three books with both Niven and...
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  • Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966) "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven (1967) "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison (1968)...
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    originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant platter with a thickness...
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  • Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex (category Essays by Larry Niven)
    Steel, Woman of Kleenex" is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and...
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  • Fleet of Worlds (category Novels by Larry Niven)
    Worlds is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, part of Niven's Known Space series. Fleet of Worlds can also refer...
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  • John Niven, Scottish writer John Niven (footballer), Scottish footballer Larry Niven, US science fiction author Niven's laws, named after Larry Niven Margaret...
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    The concept has been popularized by various science fiction writers. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle provided a detailed description of an arcology in...
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  • The Ringworld Engineers (category Novels by Larry Niven)
    is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. It is the first sequel to Niven's Ringworld and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus...
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  • Inferno is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and published in 1976. It was nominated for the 1976 Hugo and Nebula Awards for...
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  • Flash Crowd (category Short stories by Larry Niven)
    Crowd" is a 1973 English-language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant...
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    1970s The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970) Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971) To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (1972) The Gods...
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