Achilles' Choice
Larry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1996
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Competing in the Eleventh Olympiad in the late twenty-first century, in which the drive to win at any price threatens the very future of humanity, Achilles meets his match in one indomitable woman. Reprint.
Beowulf's Children (The Dragons of Heorot)Jerry Pournelle, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1999
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A group of young rebels, the new generation of the island paradise of Camelot, sets out for the mainland, ready to fight any Grendels that obstruct their path, but on Avalon the monsters are much larger than they had expected. Reprint. PW.
Choosing Names : Man-Kzin Wars VIIILarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1998
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ROUND EIGHT, MONKEY BOYS! In a new story, Larry Niven tells of the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War. The Kzin had learned of the existence of human occupied space, a find that promised new technologies for the race, and new wealth for the fierce Kzin Warriors in the form of land, slaves .... and food. Kzin had sent ships to probe the Solar System, expecting no danger from mere weed-eating apes. But the Warrior Race had underestimated monkey ingenuity, and the ships were destroyed by "peaceful" technology that the humans had hurriedly changed into weaponry. The surviving Kzin have been c...
CrashlanderLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1994
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From one of sf's most revered authors comes the only complete collection of stories starring popular hero Beowulf Schaeffer. Includes such classic tales as "Neutron Star" and "Flatlander," plus an all new Beowulf adventure and a specially created framing story that links the entire series. Original.
Larry Niven / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Destiny's Road
Larry Niven / Hardcover / Published June 1997
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Humanity tried to conquer the stars and failed. Then it was time to try again, on Destiny. But even as the new colony was taking hold, the settlers were in revolt against one another. While some stayed on the new planet with what equipment they could keep, others fled back to the stars. Now the settlements are falling into decay, and the old technology is breaking down. Spiraltown is better off than most, and Jeremy Bloocher is lucky that he will someday head the family farm there. But there is trouble, Jeremy must flee, and neither he nor Destiny will ever be the same.
Destiny's RoadLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1998
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Multiple award-winning science fiction master Larry Niven returns in grand form with the story of Planet Destiny, Earth's second attempt at colonizing an inhabitable planet of a distant star. Now, descendants of the those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot--and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny's Road.
Larry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1995
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Gathers all of the adventures of extraordinary agent Gil Hamilton into one volume, along with a brand-new story, by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ringworld. Reprint.
Footfall
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Paperback / Published May 1997
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"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. I LOVED IT!"--Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding...
FootfallLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1996
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"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. I LOVED IT!"--Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding...
Gift from EarthLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1987
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No Place For Bleeding Hearts The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans -- it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow -- under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
Integral TreesLarry Niven / Paperback / Published May 1997
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In this novel, Niven presents a fully-fleshed culture of evolved humans who live without gravity in the gas cloud surrounding a neutron star. In this Smoke Ring, free-floating life forms flourish, and all of them, from fish to fowl, can fly...
Larry Niven / Audio Cassette / Published May 1996
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Lucifer's HammerLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1983
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The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
Lucifer's HammerLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Paperback / Published January 1998
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"MASSIVELY ENTERTAINING." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer "A WORK IN THE GRAND TRADITION." --Los Angeles Times "A MEGATON OF SUSPENSEFUL EXCITEMENT . . . which should keep readers going non-stop, cover to cover." --Library Journal "Take your earthquakes, waterlogged condominiums, swarms of bugs, colliding airplanes, and flaming what-nots, wrap them up and they wouldn't match one page of Lucifer's Hammer for sweaty-palmed suspense." --Chicago Daily News
Man-Kzin Wars IIILarry Niven, S. M. Stirling (Editor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1994
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The Mind Slavers are back--and only the cat-like Kzinti can save mankind now. This volume includes all-new tales of Larry Niven's Known Space--including one by Niven himself. Another blockbuster in the ongoing chronicle of humanity's greatest war. Original.
Man-Kzin Wars VLarry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1992
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After losing three significant battles to the humans, the Kzin begin to wonder if their combative diplomatic style is working and decide to reevaluate their strategy.
Man-Kzin Wars VILarry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1994
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The man-killing cats from Kzin are back in short novels by Gregory Benford, Mark O. Martin and Donald Kingsbury. The Kzin Third Fleet has decided a change of strategy is in order after two unpleasant defeats at the hands of the humans (or "monkeys") from Earth. Only luck or the Outsiders can save us now. . . . Original.
Man-Kzin Wars VIILarry Niven, Mark O. Martin (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1995
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Bruno was the most stable linker, but linkers always went catatonic after a certain amount of time connected to high level computers. Bruno knew intellectually that he had to minimize link time. But with the link he was so much more--he could see all. He could extract all possible effectiveness from his ship and maybe save himself and his love from a horrible fate. Original.
Larry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1996
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Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.
Larry Niven / Hardcover / Published November 1984
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Oath of FealtyLarry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1982
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This was one of our more interesting efforts, closer to straight near-term science fiction than some of our works. It introduced the phrase think of it as evolution in action that has become pretty popular.
Larry Niven, Larry Nevin / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1992
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A retrospective of the career of the renowned science fiction writer includes selections from his many novels, short stories, essays and other non-fiction works, as well as a preview of the author's future projects. Reprint.
ProtectorLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1992
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Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before . . .
Rainbow MarsLarry Niven / Hardcover / Published March 1999
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According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible--sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds. In short stories collected in The Flight of the Horse (1973), his quests for a horse, a Gila monster, and a whale unearthed a unicorn, a dragon, and Moby-Dick. Less comic but equally daft, Rainbow Mars combines both space and time travel to explore Mars in the deep past, before it was a dead world. Naturally it's populated by a menagerie of warring fictional Martians from...
Larry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Expected May 2000
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According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible--sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds. In short stories collected in The Flight of the Horse (1973), his quests for a horse, a Gila monster, and a whale unearthed a unicorn, a dragon, and Moby-Dick. Less comic but equally daft, Rainbow Mars combines both space and time travel to explore Mars in the deep past, before it was a dead world. Naturally it's populated by a menagerie of warring fictional Martians from...
Larry Niven, Pat Bottino (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published June 1997
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Jerome Corbell is awakened 200 years after being frozen and finds himself in someone else's body and being chosen to train as a rammer, a starship pilot. Should he fail his training, the state would terminate him and give his adopted body to someone else. June publication date.
RingworldLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1990
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A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
Larry Niven, Patrick Cullen / Audio Cassette / Published January 1996
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Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies. Tom Parker captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive. Although this is a rousing adventure, some listeners may experience difficulty visualizing the alien settings. M.A.M. AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Larry Niven / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
Ringworld EngineersLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1990
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"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Larry Niven, et al / Hardcover / Expected May 2000
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Larry Niven, Pat Bottino (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published September 1996
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The long-awaited and exciting sequel to The Integral Trees, taking place 14 years after that novel's events, when the descendants of the Earth-ship Discipline have settled in Citizens Tree and forgotten their roots.
Tales of Known SpaceLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1985
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A collection of the author's best short stories and novelettes set in the same universe as his award winning Ringworld. Also included is an introduction by Niven explaining the fascinating aspects of his universe.
The Best of All Possible Wars : The Best of the Man-Kzin WarsLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1998
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Hardcover / Published March 2000
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Larry Niven, Steven Barnes (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1993
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As Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, plans to launch the California Voodoo Game, the greatest game ever created, only Alex Griffin, head of Dream Park Security, and Game Master Tony McWhirter know of its dangers. Reprint.
The Gripping HandLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1994
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A quarter century after humanity quarantines the aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system, the single wall between them and the galaxy beyond begins to crumble. Reprint. K. PW.
The Integral TreesLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1985
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In this novel, Niven presents a fully-fleshed culture of evolved humans who live without gravity in the gas cloud surrounding a neutron star. In this Smoke Ring, free-floating life forms flourish, and all of them, from fish to fowl, can fly...
The Legacy of HeorotLarry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1989
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Bestselling science-fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of rising young author Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind's first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. 5 maps.
The Man-Kzin WarsLarry Niven, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1997
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Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.
The Man-Kzin Wars IILarry Niven(Creator), et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1994
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The alien Kzinti had almost conquered the humans, but after the initial surprise, the humans fought back with a ferocity the Kzinti had never faced. But that was centuries ago, and the humiliation of lost battles has not faded. The Kzinti are back . . . and spoiling for a fight! Includes stories by Larry Niven, Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle and S.M.
The Mote in God's EyeLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1987
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In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
The Ringworld ThroneLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1997
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At long last, the story begun in two of the most famous and well-loved novels in science fiction continues! On the amazing 600-million-mile artificially created world that is Ringworld, strange and deadly happenings are hinting at trouble of apocalyptic proportions!.
The Smoke RingLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1990
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The long-awaited and exciting sequel to The Integral Trees, taking place 14 years after that novel's events, when the descendants of the Earth-ship Discipline have settled in Citizens Tree and forgotten their roots.
Three Books of Known SpaceLarry Niven / Paperback / Published September 1996
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In addition to three complete books that take readers on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous history, Known Space, an omnibus puts all the pieces together in chronological order, updates the timeline, and includes a bibliography of Niven's work.
We Could Do Worse : A Millennial Collection of Alternate Histories [UNABRIDGED]Martin Greenberg(Editor), et al / Audio Cassette / Published May 1999
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World Out of TimeLarry Niven / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1991
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Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.