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]
Random House |
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven
 An easily forgettable compilation of second-rate material: TALES OF KNOWN SPACE was the second collection of stories in Niven's "Known Space" universe. It is now out of print as a single volume, but can be found in the compendium THREE BOOKS OF [... more]
$5.99
Amazon.com |
Burning Tower
Return to the ''vivid and unusual'' (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history. [... more]
$7.99
eBooks |
Ringworld's Children - a review - SF/Fantasy Books
In Ringwolrd's Children, Larry Niven continues his popular Ringworld Saga. As the book opens, Louis Wu awakens from a lengthy stay in a healing chamber to find himself the reluctant tool of the protector Tunesmith. The protector is closely ... [... more]
Bella Online |
U.S. Ski Suits Straight Out of Science Fiction
In their 1971 novel The Flying Sorcerors, David Gerrold and Larry Niven wrote about an impossible idea, a suit that was both flexible all over and hard as armor all over. Phil Shettig, director of product development for Spyder Active Sports, ... [... more]
Live Science |
Sworn Allies (Fleet)
The Fleet: Sworn Allies (Book 4): Once again, Drake and Fawcett have compiled a masterful list of authors. As with the other titles in this series, this book's strength lies in the diversity of its authors. Each other writes a separate tale of futuristic [... more]
$6.99
Amazon.com |
Escape from Hell
Author: Larry Niven Author: Jerry Pournelle Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780765316325 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0765316323 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2009-02-17 Release Date: 2009-02-17 [... more]
$24.95
Amazon.com |
Man-Kzin Wars XII
Author: Larry Niven Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0876208 EAN: 9781416591412 ISBN: 1416591419 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2009-02-03 [... more]
$23.00
Amazon.com |
Starfire (Bantam Spectra Book)
Amazon.com Review: The sky is falling--again. Following up on 1998's excellent Aftermath, Starfire subjects planet Earth to yet another cosmic blast from the Alpha Centauri supernova. But while the blast that hit Earth in Aftermath simply cooked the [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
1980 Larry Niven The Ringworld Engineers
Binding: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 307 Publication Date: 1980 [... more]
Amazon.com |
Von Neumann's War
Not a good example of an apocalyptic alien invasion book: I love end-of-the-world scenarios and so I decided to read this book because the idea of machine bots intent on attacking Earth seemed an intriguing idea. Boy, was I *wrong*! I have read one or [... more]
$25.00
Amazon.com |
Schrödinger's Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum
Book Description: For the better part of a century, attempts to explain what was really going on in the quantum world seemed doomed to failure. But recent technological advances have made the question both practical and urgent. A brilliantly imaginative [... more]
$15.95
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