About Larry Niven

His first published story, "The Coldest Place," appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If. He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for "Neutron Star," and in 1974 for "The Hole Man." The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol. His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction. Larry Niven is one of today's foremost science fiction authors, and gets shamefully little attention in the literary world as a whole. His work is typical science fiction, very concerned with original ideas and scientific concepts with a rollicking good story underneath.
 

 

		Ringworld
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Ringworld is the most stunning artifact in known space - an artificial world with 3 million times Earth's surface area. Possibly Niven's best-known work; an exploration of a strange place populated with strange creatures (the sunflowers from World of Ptaavs show up here; it's all connected). Characters aren't bad, alien characters are believably alien, tensions are well-drawn, and the stuff they find is cool.

 

 

		The Ringworld Engineers
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Return to the ringworld; a lot of it is just "hey, remember this, wasn't this cool?" but there's a certain amount of original material. Guess who built the ringworld. The sequel to "Ringworld". Louis Wu, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. In the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's incredible secrets.

 

 

		Ringworld Throne
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		The sequel to "Ringworld Engineers". Ringworld is the most stunning artifact in known space - an artificial world with 3 million times Earth's surface area.

 

 

		Man Kzin Wars
		Larry Niven
		Poul Anderson and Dean Ing
		Two aggressive species, each believing in its own  supremacy. After initial contact, centuries of war stretched  between them, every new outbreak being sparked off by the Kzin, warlike, feline aliens who just couldn't believe that these seemingly weak humans could defeat them again and again. These three tales of those wars mark the  progress of one of the mightiest conflicts in the history of  known space.

 

 

		Destiny's Road
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Planet Destiny is humankind's second attempt at colonizing an inhabitable planet of a distant star. Following a fight and the accidental death of a trader, Jemmy is forced to flee the small community of Spiral Town on the only road available - the one forged by lander-craft Cavorite 250 years ago.

 

 

		Fallen Angels
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		2073. Earth falls victim to a new ice age and parodoxically, the Green politicians have rejected the technology that could save the planet. Two astronauts have crash-landed in the frozen American midwest - their only hope of survival is a group of science enthusiasts who can return them to freedom.

 

 

		Footfall
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		It was big alright. Far bigger than any craft any human had seen. It had been decelerating for weeks and it was still travelling fast enough to escape the sun's gravity with ease. Now it was headed for Earth.Good ole-fashioned bad aliens invading Earth and humans running for cover (and setting off nuclear bombs, etc...). Kind of Stephen King-ish without the horror; has the interesting and rather amusing plot device of a council of science fiction writers who are considered the experts on saving the Earth from aliens (well, who better?). Diverting fare with some small meat.

 

 

		Limits
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		A collection of short fantasy and science fictions stories by  the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of "Ringworld".

 

 

		The Barsoom Project
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Combining science fiction and fantasy with action, adventure and suspense, this novel is set in Dream Park, where nothing is what it seems and the ultimate fantasy could turn into a nightmare. The authors have also written the "Legacy of Heorot".

 

 

		The Dragons Of Heorot
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		The sequel to "The Legacy of Heorot". Twenty years ago, the colonists of Avalon waged a war against the grendels, reptilian creatures larger than alligators. The battle was bloody and brutal, but the humans triumphed, building a haven for themselves on their island capital of Camelot. Now the colony is flourishing, but a rift has grown between those who remember all too well the horrors of the grendel wars and the youngsters, who yearn for excitement and adventure and dream of claiming the entire planet for human kind. Now the younger members of the colony want to explore the mainland where the grendels still roam - and claim the entire planet.  But the dangers awaiting them on the mainland are far greater than anyone could imagine, for lurking there is something even worse than grendels... something that eats grendels.

 

 

		The Legacy Of Heorot
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Civilization on Earth was rich, comfortable and overcrowded. Millions applied, but only the best were chosen to settle on Tau Ceti Four. The colony was a success, an idyll, the stuff of dreams, but beyond the perimeter the nightmare has begun to chatter.

 

 

		N-space
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		A collection of science fiction writing from all phases of the author's career, ranging from stories such as "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to extracts from his novels. They are underlined by Niven's comments and afterthoughts, together with essays by other science fiction writers.

 

 

		The Mote In God's Eye
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		Aliens - Moties - were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet.

 

 

		The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		This is the sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye". Humankind has spent 100 years agonizing over the threat posed by the only aliens they have ever threatened, the Moties. The three-armed aliens have been quarantined within the confines of their own solar system - until now.

 

 

		Oath Of Fealty
		Larry Niven
		Jerry Pournelle
		A stirring adventure story for the future, set in Todos Santos: a self-contained, self-governing community of a quarter of a million people which towers above the slums of Los Angeles.

 

 

		Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)

 

 

		Integral Trees
		Larry Niven
		Orbit Books  (Paperback)
		This story takes place in the toroidal atmosphere around a stellar body whose nature I can't recall. The Integral Trees themselves are large trees which grow long trunks with tufts pointing in opposite directions, like an Integral sign.