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Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. 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 also writes humorous stories; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.
Niven is a great-grandson of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, an important figure in the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s. 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. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969. He is an agnostic.
Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place". In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun (it was found to rotate in a 2:3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published).
In addition to the Nebula award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971 for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Neutron Star" in 1967. He won the same award in 1972, for "Inconstant Moon", and in 1975 for "The Hole Man". In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Borderland of Sol".
Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story "The Soft Weapon". He adapted his story "Inconstant Moon" for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.
He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books. The bible for Green Lantern was written by Niven.
Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters. The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.
The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.
Niven has also written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called Mana to power a rule-based "technological" magic.
The Draco Tavern series of short stories take place in a more light-hearted science fiction universe, and are told from the point of view of the proprietor of an omni-species bar.
The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.
Much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, but also Brenda Cooper and Edward M. Lerner.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12534.Larry_Niven |
Ringworld series
Larry Niven - Ringworld (read by Tom Parker)
Larry Niven - The Ringworld Engineers (read by Paul Michael Garcia)
Larry Niven - The Ringworld Throne (read by Paul Michael Garcia)
Larry Niven - Ringworld's Children (read by Barrett Whitener)
Larry Niven - Fate Of Worlds: Return From The Ringworld (read by Tom Weiner)
Moties series
Larry Niven - The Mote In God's Eye (read by L.J. Ganser)
Larry Niven - The Gripping Hand (read by L.J. Ganser)
The State series
Larry Niven - A World Out Of Time (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - The Integral Trees (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - The Smoke Ring (read by Tom Weiner)
Heorot series
Larry Niven - The Legacy Of Heorot (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - The Secret Of Black Ship Island (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Beowulf's Children (read by Tom Weiner)
Fleet of Worlds series
Larry Niven - Fleet Of Worlds (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Juggler Of Worlds (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Destroyer Of Worlds (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Betrayer Of Worlds (read by Tom Weiner)
Dream Park series
Larry Niven - Dream Park (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Larry Niven - The Barsoom Project (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Larry Niven - The California Voodoo Game (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Larry Niven - The Moon Maze Game (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Inferno series
Larry Niven - Inferno (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Escape From Hell (read by Tom Weiner)
Golden Road series
Larry Niven - The Burning City (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Burning Tower (read by Tom Weiner)
Bowl of Heaven series / Gregory Benford
Larry Niven - Bowl Of Heaven (read by Zach Villa)
Larry Niven - Shipstar (read by Zach Villa)
Known Space series
Larry Niven - Flatlander (read by Dennis Holland)
Larry Niven - The World Of Ptavvs (read by Andy Caploe)
Larry Niven - Protector (read by Mark Sherman)
Larry Niven - Neutron Star (read by Stephen McDonald)
Larry Niven - A Gift From Earth (read by Andy Caploe)
Larry Niven - Crashlander (read by Christopher Prince)
Magic Goes Away series
Larry Niven - The Magic Goes Away (read by John Morgan)
Larry Niven - The Magic May Return (read by John Morgan)
Other
Larry Niven - Destiny's Road (read by Paul Micheal Garcia)
Larry Niven - Saturn's Race (read by Scott Brick)
Larry Niven - Lucifer's Hammer (read by Marc Vietor)
Larry Niven - Scatterbrain (read by Julian Gamble)
Larry Niven - The Draco Tavern (read by Tom Weiner)
Larry Niven - Rainbow Mars (read by Michal Prichard)
Larry Niven - Rammer (read by Pat Bottino)
Larry Niven - Convergent Series (read by Nicole McFarlane)
Larry Niven - Oath Of Fealty (read by Jeremy Johnson and Suzanne Toren)
Larry Niven - Footfall (read by MacLeod Andrews)
Larry Niven - The Descent Of Anansi (read by J.P. Linton)
Larry Niven - The Goliath Stone (read by Jeff Woodman)
Code:
Ringworld series
http://rapidgator.net/file/b4d46e9821336eaa233281143d9f0a14/Ringworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/70a178013a77fc86b6290f3a773c1e3c/The_Ringworld_Engineers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/41aa793f62ffb3a9561ae1869042950f/The_Ringworld_Throne.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e6c9f9abf6dcdb64281eddb91d828f59/Ringworlds_Children.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e4773ea11e25331143d05afd3490f3d0/Fate_Of_Worlds.rar.html
Moties series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8214de97fb914510be9fd1d831346934/The_Mote_In_Gods_Eye.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f4b09387a1c3b9586dc801bd7dae67b2/The_Gripping_Hand.rar.html
The State series
http://rapidgator.net/file/43b36e33412839a6f7770b2343081ff3/A_World_Out_Of_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e01ad2c7449a786ceb0ccffbf0dcd555/The_Integral_Trees.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b168ed1d9262a5a5458cf7faae657c37/The_Smoke_Ring.rar.html
Heorot series
http://rapidgator.net/file/0e1e787bbffaace9e45c269fe6684edf/The_Legacy_Of_Heorot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e6d31f3723b8386fda00b0555a2485e6/The_Secret_Of_Black_Ship_Island.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fe01131318cc527d8019fd240ce1d2fc/Beowulfs_Children.rar.html
Fleet of Worlds series
http://rapidgator.net/file/695efa3017c0b6cf72f68f9c5cc54b0e/Fleet_Of_Worlds.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/082a14f9c1c4e3300df61751d5c58d75/Juggler_Of_Worlds.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/54452440ab390918ef8dbca2efbc6ed0/Destroyer_Of_Worlds.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/af9753f445ba1b395a9aa3d3cc2440bf/Betrayer_Of_Worlds.rar.html
Dream Park series
http://rapidgator.net/file/a94f092cd6da728dd65c856a967f7469/Dream_Park.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/071ba8eb6db74630521d204a8e308116/The_Barsoom_Project.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/46f2ad0973f5345d2424eee7d67f2a79/The_California_Voodoo_Game.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b5641962b32eefd583d1da1b2b4616c6/The_Moon_Maze_Game.rar.html
Inferno series
http://rapidgator.net/file/0b21cb327e6520b9f5ecd8efb9ff572a/Inferno.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/92012ecfcfddf36c08f44ae480db9ffd/Escape_From_Hell.rar.html
Golden Road series
http://rapidgator.net/file/bf59e23e16faee6e6ee7a241a63464a2/The_Burning_City.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fc9fe6ca1d56767ebd498b2d0b2e5ad7/Burning_Tower.rar.html
Bowl of Heaven series
http://rapidgator.net/file/1c12a76d18a85da2de0358e0736e0d0d/Bowl_Of_Heaven.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/586a2e573a98cf2d81c6bdec9c144309/Shipstar.rar.html
Known Space series
http://rapidgator.net/file/e978baf5d31635fb696b07feb3183501/Flatlander.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/181d52615b3c88df8a51c55892b8f322/The_World_Of_Ptavvs.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8583c844c51a6029907ebc253eceba87/Protector.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4d9e4419f83a785896bd3ad80fce3429/Neutron_Star.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/de5c7e5958d31021321ca838908581f7/A_Gift_From_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6c36a4f258b0d4054e0e97ac74d27804/Crashlander.rar.html
Magic Goes Away series
http://rapidgator.net/file/657eecaff7efaf090edc453b6938ece4/The_Magic_Goes_Away.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6fba25e270362ed7c97ca75d349bd919/The_Magic_May_Return.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/6fcdad178ccf1b9ab84db13e485b0a47/Destinys_Road.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b547745135f96fac8465d79e45d93854/Saturns_Race.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7c57b7760583a31d46d27d07c9146e3b/Lucifers_Hammer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b008a772a13f12dbe6983e4ab758bbb8/Scatterbrain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b82dcffa7b7cc4da7684a6daf337d851/The_Draco_Tavern.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/43f49a0bc4ff89dd8035e53d33d762c2/Rainbow_Mars.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/51b4fde9719a35d4eae20ac151c6fb51/Rammer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d10c04b70a03d4c5cc367d87e484d695/Convergent_Series.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1bb82754d46de94d2f8daedaab101f56/Oath_Of_Fealty.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6616e1afafa62e7daea742f2963e88b3/Footfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/91eb2cb6ad173e295d8093792c11af4e/The_Descent_Of_Anansi.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/16471d3264603365b3f1f83d2ca26c23/The_Goliath_Stone.rar.html |
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