4.1
Tales of Known Space
by Larry Niven
anging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy... Becalmed in hell Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic! Wait it out He was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen! The borderland of Sol Forward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it! The jigsaw man The organ banks want you...now! Cloak of anarchy They were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough! - plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!
FictionScience Fiction
RELEASED1977
PUBLISHERBallantine Books
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic. Source: Wikipedia
4.1
Tales of Known Space
by Larry Niven
anging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy... Becalmed in hell Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic! Wait it out He was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen! The borderland of Sol Forward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it! The jigsaw man The organ banks want you...now! Cloak of anarchy They were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough! - plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!
FictionScience Fiction
RELEASED1977
PUBLISHERBallantine Books
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic. Source: Wikipedia
