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Larry Niven
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Larry Niven

Larry Niven (left) is the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of such classics as Ringworld, The Integral Trees, and Destiny's Road. He has also collaborated with both Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes on The Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf's Children, and the bestselling Dream Park series. He lives in Chatsworth, California.Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were the joint winners of the 2005 Robert A. Heinlein Award.

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Man-Kzin Wars 25th Anniversary Edition will be released on June 04, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Man-Kzin Wars XIV will be released on December 03, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Burning Tower
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Mote in God's Eye
Apr 05, 2013
Man-Kzin Wars XIII will be released on January 29, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 29, 2013
Man-Kzin Wars XIII is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 29, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Burning City
Dec 08, 2012
Man-Kzin Wars XIII will be released on April 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Apr 03, 2012
Man-Kzin Wars XIII is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 03, 2012
Man-Kzin Wars XII is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Dec 28, 2010
Man-Kzin Wars XII will be released on December 28, 2010 in Mass Market Paperback
Dec 28, 2010
The Burning City will be released on December 14, 2010 in eBook
Dec 14, 2010
The Burning City is now available in eBook
Dec 14, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Burning Tower
Dec 02, 2009
Man-Kzin Wars XII is now available in Hardcover
Feb 03, 2009
Man-Kzin Wars XII will be released on February 03, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008

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Northwest Explorer, April 16, 2013
...volume 29 (Galaxy Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (Dune prequels), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Jerry Pournelle (A Mote in God’s Eye), Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides, which Pirates of the...
PRWeb, April 15, 2013
...Nebula award winner Robert J. Sawyer (Flash Forward and The WWW Trilogy), Hugo and Nebula award winning author Larry Niven (the Ringworld series), and internationally acclaimed artists, Stephen Hickman (over 350 book and magazine covers), and Cliff...
Io9, April 11, 2013
...nanogenes in Doctor Who's "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances," a device that restores full health in Larry Niven's Known Space, the mind transfer technology in Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, cortical stacks in Takeshi Kovacs by Richard K. Morgan,...
TV Week, April 11, 2013
...Syfy said it's developing two miniseries based on classic books: Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series and Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End," reports EW.com's Inside TV."Ringworld" was previously under consideration nine years ago at the network...
Futon Critic, April 10, 2013
...SYFY DEVELOPING TWO CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS TO MINISERIES LARRY NIVEN'S RINGWORLD FROM MGM TELEVISION AND UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S CHILDHOOD'S END WITH MICHAEL DELUCA AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS ...
Fayetteville Free Weekly, April 4, 2013
...volume 29 (Galaxy Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (“Dune” prequels), Larry Niven (“Ringworld”), Jerry Pournelle (“A Mote in God’s Eye”), Tim Powers (“On Stranger Tides,” on...
Eureka Times-Standard, March 29, 2013
...Volume 29 (Galaxy Press, 2013). Participating in the ceremony will be best-selling authors Kevin J. Anderson (Dune prequels), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Jerry Pournelle (A Mote in God's Eye), Tim Powers (On Stranger Tides, which Pirates of the Caribbean...
Technology Daily News, January 18, 2013
...Nagata (The Bohr Maker, Vast, Tech-Heaven and many others) I'm going to reach way back, and say Larry Niven's The Integral Trees. I remember reading this when I was first getting serious about writing science fiction—a couple of years before I sold...
IGN.com, January 18, 2013
...of those invisible elites started attacking the group of soldiers. That was freaky. Also, the Ringworld book by Larry Niven is amazing, so looking up at the ringworld of Halo is still kind of magical in a way (but it's nowhere near as big as the one in...
Io9, January 18, 2013
...Nagata (The Bohr Maker, Vast, Tech-Heaven and many others) I'm going to reach way back, and say Larry Niven's The Integral Trees. I remember reading this when I was first getting serious about writing science fiction—a couple of years before I sold...
Cosmos Magazine, January 18, 2013
...Powerhouse Museum point out that I had the moon rising to midnight instead of falling. But you know? Larry Niven had the Earth rotating the wrong way in Ringworld; they had to do a re-print. And Robert Silverberg had the full moon visible at midday! So...
Transterrestrial Musings, January 14, 2013
...is hard to beat. When we wrote this paper, neither of us had read Fallen Angels, in which Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn – back in 1991 – prefigured both the key ideas: that the coming of the next Ice Age is a far greater threat than...
Inside Bay Area, January 10, 2013
...you should definitely start with the first installment, "Midnight Riot." "Bowl of Heaven" by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven (Tor, $25.99, 412 pages). I just don't understand why a respected publishing house like Tor misleads consumers into buying a...
San Jose Mercury News, January 10, 2013
...you should definitely start with the first installment, "Midnight Riot." "Bowl of Heaven" by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven (Tor, $25.99, 412 pages). I just don't understand why a respected publishing house like Tor misleads consumers into buying a...