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Books by Larry Niven






Inferno(1st Edition)
by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Orb Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1676-9, ISBN: 0-7653-1676-5

"After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken t ..."






The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven, Jerry Niven Pournelle, Dave \ Stern
Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 1991 by Pocket Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-671-74192-1, ISBN: 0-671-74192-6

"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. In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million year ..."






The Ringworld Engineers(Reprint)
by Larry Niven, Donato Giancola
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1990 by Ballantine Ny
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-33430-5, ISBN: 0-345-33430-2

"A return voyage to the astonishing world of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, with even more remarkable adventures and surprises, and a solution to that tantalizing question left from the earlier book: how was Ringworld built and by whom?It’s been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.With Louis’ help, t ..."






The Ringworld Throne(1st Edition)
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1997 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-41296-6, ISBN: 0-345-41296-6

"Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered.  A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written!The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is goin ..."






Lucifer's Hammer(3rd Edition)
A Novel
by Larry Niven, Jerry Niven Pournelle, Jerry Pournelee, Steven Barnes, Dave Stern
Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 1985 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-449-20813-7, ISBN: 0-449-20813-3

"“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-DealerThe 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 me ..."






Footfall(Reprint)
by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 1986 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-32344-6, ISBN: 0-345-32344-0

"A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. SYNOPSIS: THE SNOUTS ARE COMING. Men first saw the invader as a series of dots on astronomical plates. It moved in a way that meant it was operating under power, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. And since no life was possible on Saturn or its moons, the ship had to be a visitor from another star. THE ALIENS WERE ON THEIR WAY! Mankind's frantic efforts to signal the invader went unanswered. First contact ..."






The Gripping Hand(1st Edition)
by Larry Niven, Jerry Niven Pournelle, Cover Art
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1994 by Pocket Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-671-79574-0, ISBN: 0-671-79574-0

"Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." The San Francisco Chronicle declared that "as science fiction, The Mote in God's Eye is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sa ..."






Ringworld
A Novel (A Del Rey book)
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1985 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-33392-6, ISBN: 0-345-33392-6

"Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novelFour travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no exper ..."






The Goliath Stone(Reprint)
by Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-6889-8, ISBN: 0-7653-6889-7

"The Goliath Stone is a visionary new tale from Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington.Doctor Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer's controversial nanites are more than just the latest technological advance, they are a new form of life--and they have more uses than just medical. Glyer's nanites also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the wealth of asteroids. Twenty-five ye ..."






Fate of Worlds(Reprint)
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2013 by Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-6649-8, ISBN: 0-7653-6649-5

"Fate of Worlds is Larry Niven and Edward Lerner’s explosive finale to the Ringworld and the Fleet of Worlds series.For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact—and grandest prize—in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no l ..."






Ringworld's Children(Reprint)
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-9659-4, ISBN: 0-7653-9659-9

"Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanet ..."






Escape from Hell(1st Edition)
by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1632-5, ISBN: 0-7653-1632-3

"Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured.  He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined.  Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned.  But now that he's returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again leave?  "






The Draco Tavern(Reprint)
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by Tor Science Fiction
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4771-8, ISBN: 0-7653-4771-7

"When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann established a tavern catering to all of various species of visiti ..."






Crashlander(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-38168-2, ISBN: 0-345-38168-8

"At last, all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories in one volume—plus a brand-new story and never-before-seen material linking them all together.Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf stories—including a breand-new one—in one long tale of exploration and adventure!Neutron StarBeowulf Shaeffer uncovers one of the puppet ..."






Protector(Reprint)
(Known Space)
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1987 by Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-35312-2, ISBN: 0-345-35312-9

"A classic novel of known spacePhssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before . . .Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smugg ..."






Achilles' Choice(Reprint)
by Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Boris Vallejo
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1991 by Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-1083-6, ISBN: 0-8125-1083-6

"The gods of Olympus offered a fateful choice to the warrior, Achilles--a short, glorious life, or a long, dull one.Achilles chose glory.This is the story of the Eleventh Olympiad in the late 21st century--a contest not only for glory but for survival--and of the woman who dared to compete for the highest stakes of all.The future of humanity."






The Integral Trees
by Larry Niven, Michael Whelan, David Harrop
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1985 by Ballantine/ Del Rey
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-32065-0, ISBN: 0-345-32065-4

"Novel by Hugo and Nebula Award winner, first serialized in Analog Science Fiction (1983/84). A sequel, "The Smoke Ring," appeared in 1987. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: in this case, a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star."






Glorious
A Science Fiction Novel (Bowl of Heaven)
by Gregory Benford, Larry Niven
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-9240-4, ISBN: 0-7653-9240-2

"Glorious continues the hard science fiction Bowl of Heaven series from multi-award-winning authors Gregory Benford and Larry Niven…Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, hi ..."






Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar
by Gregory Benford, Larry Niven
Paperback, 1,040 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-25952-3, ISBN: 1-250-25952-5

"Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar collects two novels from science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) that weave a thrilling intersteller odyssey in the not-too-distant future.“If you like hard SF with mind-stretching ideas―both physical and psychological―then you definitely want to read this book.” ―Analog on the New York Times bestseller Bowl of HeavenA human expedition to colonize another star system is ..."






Man-Kzin Wars XV
by Larry Niven
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Baen
ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8377-3, ISBN: 1-4814-8377-3

"THE POPULAR MAN-KZIN WARS SERIES ROARS BACK INTO ACTION! New stories of the war between humanity and the catlike Kzin from Brad R. Torgersen, Brendan DuBois, Martin L. Shoemaker, and more!The predatory catlike warrior race known as the Kzin never had a hard time dealing with all those they encountered, conquering alien worlds with little effort. That is until they came face to face with the leaf-eaters known as humans. Small of stature ..."



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