Larry Niven
1) Ringworld
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Ringworld series volume 1
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"Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin - a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats -- are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Its origins are shrouded in mystery."--Amazon.com.
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Tor
Pub. Date
2007
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299 p. ; 25 cm.
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When a chain reaction of supernovae explosions at the core of the galaxy unleashes a deadly wave of radiation that will sterilize the entire galaxy, the Citizens--accompanied by Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs, a descendant of human survivors--flee into the unknown.
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Golden road volume 1
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000
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xxi, 486 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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Tor
Pub. Date
2009
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365 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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A tale set ten years after the events in "Juggler of Worlds" traces the reluctant efforts of the Puppeteers to counter onrushing alien refugees who are ransacking the planets they pass on their way toward the Fleet of Worlds.
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
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Rocket with a group of intergalactic explorers to the Ringworld, a massive artificial world looped like a giant ribbon the size of Earth's orbit around the sun. Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two, based on Larry Niven's classic and illustrated by the talented manga artist Sean Lam, is the conclusion to the most exciting, action-packed science fiction adventure ever conceived!
Stranded on this bizarre world, they soon discover that
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1993
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x, 560 pages ; 18 cm.
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In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
14) Burning tower
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Golden road volume 2
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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xii, 430 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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When Tep's Town falls under attack from a flock of giant, ferocious birds, two young lovers must journey to a savage land where magic still exists to confront those who control the birds for their own nefarious purposes.
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The Seascape Tattoo: the latest spellbinding adventure in Larry Niven's acclaimed collaborations with Steven Barnes.
Aros of Azteca and Neoloth-Pteor are the deadliest of enemies: Swordsman and Sorcerer, locked in mortal combat, who have tried to kill each other more times than either can count. But when the princess Neoloth loves is kidnapped, there is only one plan that offers any hope of rescue . . . and that requires passing off the barbarian...
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Black Cat Weekly #28 features another interview by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzer-this time with Larry Niven.. It originally appeared in Thrust, a review and critical essay magazine published by Doug Fratz in the 1970s. As Darrell has observed, these old interviews fall somewhere between oral history and paleontology." It's always interesting to compare where at author was in his career almost 50 years ago to where he is today. For this issue's...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 26: May 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Eric Cline, Edward M. Lerner, George Nikolopoulos, Effie Seiberg, Spencer Ellsworth, Lou J Berger, Robert Silverberg, Patrick Hurley, Emily McCosh, Kevin J. Anderson, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven.
Serialization: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Columns by: Barry N. Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Recommended...
18) Passerby
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A stranded Rammer who finds himself transported from the depths of space to humanity's cradle on Earth tells his harrowing tale to a peoplewatcher. This short story was first printed in Galaxy in September 1969.
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Like Cloak of Anarchy, this story is peopled with fictional versions of several of Niven's friends. A discussion among friends about the theory of "Multiple Edens" suddenly becomes all too real, and the reason Tom Findlay has been asking such interesting questions over the years becomes clear.
20) Inconstant Moon
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How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova, and they only have a few hours until the earth rotates into the deadly sunshine. This story won a Hugo award and was made into an episode of The Outer Limits.
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