Larry Niven
Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. He graduated ... [... more]
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N-Space
 The book that brought me back into the Niven fold: I am a lapsed Niven fan having discovered him in the late '70s as a kid. Something spurred me to buy N-Space as a way to rediscover what I cherished about his unique mix of hard sci-fi and realistic [... more]
CDN$18.50
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Juggler of Worlds
Author: Edward M Lerner Author: Larry Niven Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780765318268 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 0765318261 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2008-09-16 [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown: The Phobos Science ...
Cowboys, Yeti, and Opera Singers: If you are hungry for good science fiction, "Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown" will have you drooling like a lion at an antelope buffet. One of the things I love about a good science fiction anthology is the way [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Fallen Angels
Underground Trekkies: I love the premise of the book- what happens when environmentalists get crazy and start an ice age, but the authors, all three great, could have done so much better. The idea that a bunch of underground science fiction fans being [... more]
CDN$25.00
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The Houses of the Kzinti
Great... except for the cover: This book contains two novels originally published (in two parts each) in the "Man-Kzin Wars" series, which by now has run into 9 books. I consider these two among the best of the series' offerings, describing [... more]
CDN$24.00
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Under Cover Of Darkness
Excellent Collection: This book won the 2008 Canadian Aurora award as the "Best Work in English (Other)". I've read and enjoyed all of the stories --- highly recommended! The complete list of stories is "The Scoria" by Doranna Durgin, [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Fleet Of Worlds
Author: Edward M Lerner Author: Larry Niven Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780765318251 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 0765318253 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2007-10-16 [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Ringworld
What the heck was this?: I heard all kinds of good things about this book, so I decided to give it a try. Wow. The characters are somewhat thinner than cardboard, the writing is childlike, and very, very bizarre. English grammar was not a prerequisite [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Man Kzin Wars VIII
Excellent addition to the series.: For those unfamiliar with the Man-Kzin Wars series, or Kzinti in general, the Kzin are an alien race created by Larry Niven, a spacefaring race evolved from carnivorous hunting cats instead of omnivorous monkeys. They [... more]
CDN$8.99
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L'anneau-monde
Author: Larry Niven Binding: Mass Market Paperback EAN: 9782290339169 ISBN: 2290339164 Number Of Pages: 382 Publication Date: 2003-12-12 [... more]
CDN$12.95
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Ringworld's Children
Wonderful world-building, weak story/characters: 250-year-old Louis Wu awakens as a young-man after an extensive stay in a nanotechnology healing chamber to find that the situation on Ringworld is not good. Although the new protector, Tunesmith, is doing [... more]
CDN$9.99
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