Larry Niven

A Los Angeles native, Larry Niven started out his academic career at CalTech, though he got his BA in math from Washburn University in Kansas. He did graduate work in math at UCLA and has been a full-time writer since then.

In 1967, he won the Best Short Story Hugo for "Neutron Star". He won again in 1972 for "Inconstant Moon", and in 1975 for "The Hole Man". In 1976, he won the Best Novelette Hugo for "The Borderland of Sol".

His novel Ringworld (1970) won both Hugo and Nebula for Best Novel.

He has also written scripts for SF television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series ("The Slaver Weapon" with the Kzinti species). One of his short stories, "Inconstant Moon", was adapted for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits.

In comics, he has written for the DC character Green Lantern, including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are common to his novels but unusual in comic books. He created the "Bible" for the Green Lantern.

Partial Bibliography

Series

Ringworld

1. Ringworld (1970)
2. The Ringworld Engineers (1979)
3. The Ringworld Throne (1996)
4. Ringworld's Children (2004)

also Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994) (with Kevin Stein)

Moties (with Jerry Pournelle)

1. The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
2. The Gripping Hand (1993)

Magic Goes Away

1. The Magic Goes Away (1978)
2. The Magic May Return (1981)
3. More Magic (1984)

Dream Park (with Steven Barnes)

1. Dreampark (1981)
2. The Barsoom Project (1989)
3. The California Voodoo Game (1992)

Known Space

1. The Integral Trees (1983)
2. The Smoke Ring (1987)

Novels

The World of Ptavvs (1966)
A Gift from Earth (1968)
The Flying Sorcerers (1971) (with David Gerrold)
Protector (1973)
Inferno (1976) (with Jerry Pournelle)
A World Out of Time (1976)
Lucifer's Hammer (1977) (with Jerry Pournelle)
The Patchwork Girl (1980)
Oath of Fealty (1981) (with Jerry Pournelle)
The Descent of Anansi (1982) (with Steven Barnes)
The Time of the Warlock (1984)
Footfall (1985) (with Jerry Pournelle)
Achilles' Choice (1991) (with Steven Barnes)
Fallen Angels (1991) (with Michael Flynn and Jerry Pournelle)
Destiny's Road (1997)
Rammer (1997)
Rainbow Mars (1999)
Saturn's Race (2000) (with Steven Barnes)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) (with Brenda Cooper)

Collections

Neutron Star (1968)
The Shape of Space (1969)
All the Myriad Way (1971)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Tales of Known Space (1975)
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976)
Convergent Series (1979)
Niven's Laws (1984)
Limits (1985)
Three Books of Known Space (1989)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Crashlander (1994)
Flatlander: The Collected Tales of Gil 'the Arm' Hamilton (1995)
Scatterbrain (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Time Travelers Never Die (1996)
Dead in the Water (1999)
Good Intentions (1999) (with Stanley Schmidt)