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Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (book review).
‘Inconstant Moon’ is a Larry Niven anthology of eight stories, mostly written in the 1960s. Back in the early 1970s, when this book…
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Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer whose stories include Ringworld and the wider Known Space setting. Explore reviews, interviews and discussion of his work.
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Larry Niven: Ringworlds, Puppeteers, and the joy of indestructible Monomolecular Wires (interview).
There are few authors in science fiction who have managed to blend hard science with outright insanity quite as well as Larry Niven,…
March 2022
NewsBooks
Ringworld readers (panel discussion).
David Barr Kirtley is joined by Rajan Khanna, Abby Goldsmith, and Mercurio D. Rivera to discuss Larry Niven’s famous 1970 book Ringworld. Larry…
December 2020
ReviewScifi
The Goliath Stone by Larry Niven & Matthew Harrington (book review).
‘The Goliath Stone’ by Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington is standalone novel set between 2026 and 2052. Toby Glyer as a child,…
February 2016
ReviewScifi
The Moon Maze Game (Dream Park book 4) by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes (book review).
‘The Moon Maze Game’ is the fourth novel in the ‘Dream Park’ series by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. The story takes place…
ReviewScifi
Shipstar (volume 2) by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven (book review).
‘Shipstar’ continues the adventure started in ‘Bowl Of Heaven’ where the crew of SunSeeker encountered a solar system-sized bowl-shaped construct powered and propelled…
ReviewScifi
Bowl Of Heaven (volume one) by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven (book review).
Don’t buy this book! Or rather, don’t buy this book unless you also buy ‘Shipstar’, the book which follows. ‘Bowl Of Heaven’ is…
April 2014
ReviewFantasy
Escape From Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (book review).
Larry Niven should need no introduction to readers of Science Fiction. The creator of ‘Known Space’, he is perhaps best known for ‘Ringworld’,…
October 2012
ReviewBooks
Fate Of Worlds (Fleet Of Worlds book 5) by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner (book review)
For a fifth and final book in the ‘Fleet Of Worlds’ series, ‘Fate Of Worlds’ is practically an introduction to any new reader…