author : Larry Niven

Books

• All the Myriad Ways. 1971
• The Flying Sorcerers. 1971 == The Misspelled Magician, with David Gerrold
• The Flight of the Horse. 1973
• Inconstant Moon. 1973
• Protector. 1973
• A Hole in Space. 1974
• A World out of Time. 1976
• Lucifer's Hammer. 1977, with Jerry Pournelle
• Convergent Series. 1979
• The Descent of Anansi. 1982, with Steven Barnes
• Limits. 1985
• Footfall. 1985, with Jerry Pournelle
• Oath of Fealty. 1986, with Jerry Pournelle
• Fallen Angels. 1991, with Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn
• Achilles' Choice. 1991, with Steven Barnes
• Rainbow Mars. 1999
• Saturn's Race. 2000, with Steven Barnes
• Scatterbrain. 2003
• Building Harlequin's Moon. 2005, with Brenda Cooper
• The Goliath Stone. 2013, with Matthew Joseph Harrington
• Allen Carpenter
1. Inferno. 1976, with Jerry Pournelle
2. [Escape from Hell.] 2009, with Jerry Pournelle
• Bowl of Heaven
1. Bowl of Heaven. 2012, with Gregory Benford
2. Shipstar. 2015, with Gregory Benford
3. Glorious. 2020, with Gregory Benford
• Dream Park
1. Dream Park. 1981, with Steven Barnes
2. The Barsoom Project. 1989, with Steven Barnes
3. The Voodoo Game. 1991, with Steven Barnes
4. The Moon Maze Game. 2011, with Steven Barnes
• Gil Hamilton
1. The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton. 1976
2. The Patchwork Girl. 1980
• Heorot
1. The Legacy of Heorot. 1987, with Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
2. The Dragons of Heorot. 1995 == Beowulf's Children, with Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
3. Destiny's Road. 1997
• Integral Trees
1. The Integral Trees. 1984
2. The Smoke Ring. 1987
• Known Space
1. The World of Ptavvs. 1966
2. A Gift from Earth. 1968
3. Neutron Star. 1968
4. Tales of Known Space. 1975
5. Crashlander. 1994
• Mana
1. The Magic Goes Away. 1978
2. The Magic May Return. 1981
• Moties
1. The Mote in God's Eye. 1974, with Jerry Pournelle
2. The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye. 1992 == The Gripping Hand, with Jerry Pournelle
• Ringworld
0. Pre-discovery
1. Fleet of Worlds. 2007, with Edward M. Lerner
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
5. Fate of Worlds. 2012, with Edward M. Lerner
1. Ringworld. 1970
2. Ringworld Engineers. 1979
3. The Ringworld Throne. 1996
4. [Ringworld's Children.] 2004
• Tep's Town
1. The Burning City. 2000, with Jerry Pournelle
2. [Burning Tower.] 2005, with Jerry Pournelle

Short works

• Becalmed in Hell. 1965
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Inconstant Moon
  • In Tales of Known Space
• A Relic of the Empire. 1966. (In Neutron Star )
• At the Core. 1966
  • In Crashlander
  • In Neutron Star
  • In The Second 'If' Reader
• Neutron Star. 1966
  • In Crashlander
  • In Neutron Star
  • In The Hugo Winners Volume One 1962-1967
  • In Where Do We Go From Here? 2
• Flatlander. 1967
  • In Crashlander
  • In Neutron Star
  • In Seven Trips Through Time and Space
• Handicap. 1967. (In World's Best SF 1 )
• The Ethics of Madness. 1967. (In Neutron Star )
• The Handicapped. 1967. (In Neutron Star )
• The Jigsaw Man. 1967
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Dangerous Visions
  • In Tales of Known Space
• The Soft Weapon. 1967. (In Neutron Star )
• All the Myriad Ways. 1968. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• Grendel. 1968
  • In Crashlander
  • In Neutron Star
• There is a Tide. 1968
  • In A Hole in Space
  • In Tales of Known Space
• Wait It Out. 1968
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Inconstant Moon
  • In Tales of Known Space
  • In The Science Fictional Solar System
• Not Long Before the End. 1969
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Inconstant Moon
  • In The Magic May Return
• Passerby. 1969
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Galaxy: October 1969
  • In Inconstant Moon
• The Flight of the Horse. 1969. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• The Theory and Practice of Teleportation. 1969. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• Leviathan. 1970. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• Unfinished Story #1. 1970. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• For a Foggy Night. 1971. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• Inconstant Moon. 1971
  • In All the Myriad Ways
  • In Inconstant Moon
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. 1971. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• Rammer. 1971
  • In A Hole in Space
  • In Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year
• The Fourth Profession. 1971
  • In A Hole in Space
  • In Project Solar Sail
• The Theory and Practice of Time Travel. 1971. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• There's a Wolf in My Time Machine. 1971. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• Unfinished Story #2. 1971. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?. 1971. (In All the Myriad Ways )
• What Good is a Glass Dagger?. 1972. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• All the Bridges Rusting. 1973. (In A Hole in Space )
• At the Bottom of a Hole. 1973
  • In Inconstant Moon
  • In Tales of Known Space
• Bird in the Hand. 1973. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• Death By Ecstasy. 1973
  • In Inconstant Moon
  • In The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton
• Death in a Cage. 1973. (In The Flight of the Horse )
• Flash Crowd. 1973
  • In The Flight of the Horse
  • In Three Trips in Time and Space
• The Alibi Machine. 1973. (In A Hole in Space )
• The Hole Man. 1973
  • In A Hole in Space
  • In Black Holes
• The Lion in His Attic. 1973. (In Inconstant Moon )
• $16,940.00. 1974. (In A Hole in Space )
• A Kind of Murder. 1974. (In A Hole in Space )
• Bigger Than Worlds. 1974. (In A Hole in Space )
• Singularities Make Me Nervous. 1974
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Stellar 1
• The Borderland of Sol. 1974
  • In Black Holes
  • In Crashlander
  • In Tales of Known Space
• The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club. 1974. (In A Hole in Space )
• Cloak of Anarchy. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• Eye of an Octopus. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• Intent To Deceive. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• Safe at Any Speed. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• The Coldest Place. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• The Warriors. 1975. (In Tales of Known Space )
• ARM. 1976. (In The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton )
• Mistake. 1976
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Stellar 2
• The Defenseless Dead. 1976. (In The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton )
• Slaver Weapon. 1977. (In Star Trek Log 10 )
• Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!. 1978
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Destinies: November-December 1978
• Bordered in Black. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Inconstant Moon
• Cautionary Tales. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Convergent Series. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Inconstant Moon
• Cruel and Unusual. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Dry Run. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Grammar Lesson. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• How the Heroes Die. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Tales of Known Space
• Like Banquo's Ghost. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Night on Mispec Moor. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• One Face. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Inconstant Moon
• Plaything. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Spirals. 1979
  • In Destinies: April-June 1979
  • In Limits
• The Deadlier Weapon. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Inconstant Moon
• The Meddler. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• The Nonesuch. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• The Schumann Computer. 1979
  • In Convergent Series
  • In Destinies: January-February 1979
• The Subject is Closed. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Transfer of Power. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Wrong Way Street. 1979. (In Convergent Series )
• Retrospective. 1980. (In Destinies: Summer 1980 )
• The Green Marauder. 1980
  • In Destinies: February-March 1980
  • In Limits
• War Movie. 1981
  • In Limits
  • In Stellar 7
• Reflex. 1982. (In There Will Be War )
• A Teardrop Falls. 1985. (In Limits )
• Flare Time. 1985. (In Limits )
• Folk Tale. 1985. (In Limits )
• Limits. 1985. (In Limits )
• Talisman. 1985. (In Limits )
• The Locusts. 1985. (In Limits )
• The Real Thing. 1985. (In Limits )
• The Roentgen Standard. 1985. (In Limits )
• Brenda. 1988. (In New Destinies : Volume III )
• Criticism. 1989. (In New Destinies : Volume VII )
• Portrait of Daryanree the King. 1990. (In More Tales from the Forbidden Planet )
• The Return of William Proxmire. 1992. (In Requiem )
• The South Los Angeles Broadcasting System. 1995. (In How to Save the World )
• Hugo Award anecdotes. 1996. (In Scatterbrain )
• Telepresence. 1997. (In Scatterbrain )
• Mission to Abisko. 1999. (In Mission to Abisko )
• Smut Talk. 2000. (In Scatterbrain )
• Autograph etiquette. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Canon for "Man-Kzin Wars". 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Collaboration. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Destiny's Road : excerpted from the novel. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Did the moon move for you too?. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Discussion re: Ice and Mirrors. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Epilogue: What I tell librarians. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Handicap. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• How to save civilization and make a little money. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Ice and Mirrors. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Intercon trip report. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Introduction to Peter Hamilton's "Watching Trees Grow". 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Introduction: Where do I get my crazy ideas?. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Introductory material for "Man-Kzin Wars II". 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Learning to love the space station. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Loki. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Mars: who needs it?. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Procrustes. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Saturn's Race : excerpted from the novel. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Saturn's Race : the writing of. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Tabletop fusion. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• The Burning City : excerpted from the novel. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• The Ringworld Throne : excerpted from the novel. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• The Woman in Del Rey Crater. 2003. (In Scatterbrain )
• Mice Among Elephants. 2016. (In Bridging Infinity )

Other information

• Known Space lightbulb jokes

Books : reviews

Larry Niven.
All the Myriad Ways.
1971

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• All the Myriad Ways. 1968

• Passerby. 1969

• For a Foggy Night. 1971

• Wait It Out. 1968

• The Jigsaw Man. 1967

• Not Long Before the End. 1969

• Unfinished Story #1. 1970

• Unfinished Story #2. 1971

• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. 1971

• The Theory and Practice of Teleportation. 1969

• The Theory and Practice of Time Travel. 1971

• Inconstant Moon. 1971

• What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?. 1971

• Becalmed in Hell. 1965

Larry Niven.
The Flight of the Horse.
1973

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Flash Crowd. 1973

• What Good is a Glass Dagger?. 1972

• Death in a Cage. 1973

• The Flight of the Horse. 1969

• Leviathan. 1970

• Bird in the Hand. 1973

• There's a Wolf in My Time Machine. 1971

Larry Niven.
Inconstant Moon.
1973

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Passerby. 1969

• Wait It Out. 1968

• Not Long Before the End. 1969

• Inconstant Moon. 1971

• Becalmed in Hell. 1965

• Convergent Series. 1979

• The Deadlier Weapon. 1979

• Bordered in Black. 1979

• At the Bottom of a Hole. 1973

• Death By Ecstasy. 1973

• One Face. 1979

• The Lion in His Attic. 1973

Larry Niven.
A Hole in Space.
1974

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Rammer. 1971

• The Hole Man. 1973

• The Alibi Machine. 1973

• The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club. 1974

• A Kind of Murder. 1974

• All the Bridges Rusting. 1973

• There is a Tide. 1968

• Bigger Than Worlds. 1974

• $16,940.00. 1974

• The Fourth Profession. 1971

Larry Niven.
Convergent Series.
1979

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Convergent Series. 1979

• The Deadlier Weapon. 1979

• Bordered in Black. 1979

• One Face. 1979

• How the Heroes Die. 1979

• Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!. 1978

• The Schumann Computer. 1979

• Like Banquo's Ghost. 1979

• The Meddler. 1979

• Dry Run. 1979

• The Nonesuch. 1979

• Singularities Make Me Nervous. 1974

A time-travelling astronaut devises what he thinks is a foolproof way of making a fortune...

• Grammar Lesson. 1979

• The Subject is Closed. 1979

• Cruel and Unusual. 1979

• Transfer of Power. 1979

• Cautionary Tales. 1979

• Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation. 1979

• Plaything. 1979

• Mistake. 1976

• Night on Mispec Moor. 1979

• Wrong Way Street. 1979

Larry Niven, ed.
Limits.
1985

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• War Movie. 1981

• Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle. Spirals. 1979

• The Green Marauder. 1980

• A Teardrop Falls. 1985

• Larry Niven, Dian Girard. Talisman. 1985

• Flare Time. 1985

• Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. The Locusts. 1985

• The Roentgen Standard. 1985

• Folk Tale. 1985

• The Real Thing. 1985

• Limits. 1985

Larry Niven, Steven Barnes.
Saturn's Race.
Tor. 2000

Larry Niven, ed.
Scatterbrain.
Tor. 2003

Contents

• Introduction: Where do I get my crazy ideas?. 2003

A rambling dicourse on the origin of some ideas, the size of co-authors names on book covers, and the importance of editors

• Destiny's Road : excerpted from the novel. 2003

• The Ringworld Throne : excerpted from the novel. 2003

• The Woman in Del Rey Crater. 2003

• Loki. 2003

• Procrustes. 2003

Beowulf Shaeffer

• Mars: who needs it?. 2003

non-fiction for space.com

• How to save civilization and make a little money. 2003

non-fiction for space.com

• Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle. The Burning City : excerpted from the novel. 2003

• Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. Saturn's Race : the writing of. 2003

• Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. Saturn's Race : excerpted from the novel. 2003

• Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper. Ice and Mirrors. 2003

• Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper. Discussion re: Ice and Mirrors. 2003

• Smut Talk. 2000

A Draco Tavery story

• Marvin L. Minsky, Larry Niven. Telepresence. 1997

from the CACNSP meeting, 8/8/97

• Learning to love the space station. 2003

non-fiction: reality versus expectations

• Autograph etiquette. 2003

advice for writers and hunters

• Tabletop fusion. 2003

speculations on cold fusion

• Collaboration. 2003

some guildelines on writing with others

• Intercon trip report. 2003

• Handicap. 2003

Tools and technology can compensate for handicaps, and enhance us. What will be considered a handicap in the future?

• Did the moon move for you too?. 2003

• Hugo Award anecdotes. 1996

• Introduction to Peter Hamilton's "Watching Trees Grow". 2003

• Introductory material for "Man-Kzin Wars II". 2003

• Canon for "Man-Kzin Wars". 2003

• Epilogue: What I tell librarians. 2003

On leg injuries, anecdotes, letting kis ito the adult section of the library, falseness of Snow's "Two Cultures", the demise of short stories

Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper.
Building Harlequin's Moon.
Tor. 2005

Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington.
The Goliath Stone.
Tor. 2013

Twenty-five years ago. Doctor Toby Glyer and William Connors made a revolutionary breakthrough in nanotechnology. Their controversial nanites were capable of everything from miracle cures for the terminally ill to Al for asteroid-mining missions. But when the nanite-run Briareus mission to divert an Earth-crossing asteroid dropped out of contact soon after reaching its target, the entire program was shut down and the use of nanotechnology forcibly suppressed.

Now a much, much larger asteroid is on a collision course with Earth—and the Briareus nanites may be responsible. While governments scramble to find a solution, Doctor Glyer knows that their only hope of avoiding Armageddon lies in the nanites themselves. On the run, Glyer must track down Connors and find a way to make contact with their wayward children before a two-hundred-gigaton asteroid smashes into Earth. Will Glyer’s nanites be Earth’s salvation, or destruction?

Gregory Benford, Larry Niven.
Bowl of Heaven.
Tor. 2012

A human starship crew overtakes an immense bowl-shaped structure hurtling through interstellar space. Cupping a star to itself, the bowl moves by using the star’s jet to propel itself toward the same target star as the humans.

A landing party reaches the vast lands of this spinning world, only to be captured. But some escape the gigantic inhabitants to seek answers to what this place means. Who built it? Where? When? Why?

Their discoveries transform human understanding of our universe and imperil our destiny.

Gregory Benford, Larry Niven.
Shipstar.
Tor. 2015

When the crew of the SunSeeker investigates a gigantic, bowl-shaped object with a sun at its center, their landing party is split into two groups. One is captured, while the other is pursued across a deadly landscape. Both seek to unravel the mysteries of the gargantuan artefact known as the SHIPSTAR

To survive they must escape the alien inhabitants known as the Folk. What they discover along the way will transform the way mankind understands its place in the universe.

Gregory Benford, Larry Niven.
Glorious.
Tor. 2020

In Glorious, audacious astronauts are tasked with exploring a brave, new, highly dangerous world, where they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts. All the while, they must contend with bizarre, sometimes deadly life-forms and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths.

Larry Niven, Steven Barnes.
Dream Park.
1981

(read but not reviewed)

pp303-4.
I once had a sword, or should I say, it once had me.
I just picked it up, oh what a sword, it was plus three.
It’s Ego was twelve, a fact of which I wasn’t aware;
Then I tried to leave and I found that the sword didn’t care; oh ...

I walked through the halls, wasting my time, nothing to find.
Then I turned a corner, and then I said, ‘Oh, no! Undead!’
The thirty-two Wights saw me coming and started to laugh;
And I closed my eyes as my sword started hewing a path; oh---

And when I awoke, I was alone, that sword had flown.
Now, I use a club; isn’t it good… no-ego wood.

Larry Niven, Steven Barnes.
The Moon Maze Game.
Tor. 2011

Larry Niven.
The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton.
1976

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Death By Ecstasy. 1973

• The Defenseless Dead. 1976

• ARM. 1976

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes.
The Legacy of Heorot.
Sphere. 1987

(read but not reviewed)

Larry Niven.
Neutron Star.
1968

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Neutron Star. 1966

• A Relic of the Empire. 1966

• At the Core. 1966

• The Soft Weapon. 1967

• Flatlander. 1967

• The Ethics of Madness. 1967

• Grendel. 1968

• The Handicapped. 1967

Larry Niven.
Tales of Known Space.
1975

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Wait It Out. 1968

• The Jigsaw Man. 1967

• Becalmed in Hell. 1965

• The Borderland of Sol. 1974

• There is a Tide. 1968

• At the Bottom of a Hole. 1973

• Eye of an Octopus. 1975

• The Warriors. 1975

• The Coldest Place. 1975

• How the Heroes Die. 1979

• Safe at Any Speed. 1975

• Cloak of Anarchy. 1975

• Intent To Deceive. 1975

Larry Niven.
Crashlander.
Del Rey. 1994

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Borderland of Sol. 1974

• Neutron Star. 1966

• At the Core. 1966

• Flatlander. 1967

• Grendel. 1968

Larry Niven, ed.
The Magic May Return.
1981

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Not Long Before the End. 1969

• Fred Saberhagen. Earthshade. 1981

• Dean Ing. Manaspill. 1981

• Steven Barnes. "...But Fear Itself". 1981

• Poul Anderson, Mildred Downey Broxon. Strength. 1981

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner.
Fleet of Worlds.
Tor. 2007

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner.
Juggler of Worlds.
Tor. 2008

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner.
Destroyer of Worlds.
Tor. 2009

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner.
Betrayer of Worlds.
Tor. 2010

Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner.
Fate of Worlds.
Tor. 2012

For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact—and grandest prize—in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But the Ringworld has vanished without warning, leaving behind three rival war fleets.

Something must justify the blood and treasure that have been spent. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the Puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs. Everyone knows that the Puppeteers are cowards.

But the crises converging upon the trillion Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas as the many players head toward a final, decisive collision. One way or another, the fabled race of Puppeteers may have come to the end of their days.