Larry Niven has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards multiple times for, amongst other works, Neutron Star (1966 Hugo for best short story), Ringworld (1970 Hugo and Nebula for best novel) and "The Borderland of Sol" (1975 Hugo for best novelette).
| Career Highlights |
The Known Space series
Neutron Star (1968) collection
World of Ptavvs (1968)
A Gift From Earth (1968)
Ringworld (1970)
Protector (1973)
Tales of Known Space (1975) collection
The Ringworld Engineers (1980)
Flatlander (1995) collection
The Ringworld Throne (1996) |
Other works
N-Space (1990) collection
Playgrounds of the Mind (1990) collection |
with Jerry Pournelle
The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
Lucifer's Hammer (1975)
Footfall (1985) |
Niven is best known for his Known Space series, a future history spanning the entirety of the third millennium and ranging from the galactic core to the outer rim.
Brimming with habitable worlds, richly imagined human cultures, and convincingly created alien races, Known Space is a benchmark against which other SF settings are measured.
He has also authored a number of popular novels with frequent collaborator Jerry Pournelle, including The Mote in God's Eye (and its sequel The Gripping Hand), Lucifer's Hammer, and Footfall.
With Stephen Barnes, he has written the Dream Park series, and with both Pournelle and Barnes, The Legacy of Heorot and its sequel Beowulf's Children.
Niven is also known for his essays on various topics, usually speculative nonfiction, which are engrossing and frequently hilarious.
Many can be found in the collections N-Space, Playgrounds of the Mind and Niven's Laws. In particular, N-Space and Playgrounds make a fine introduction to the breadth of Niven's work.
Perhaps most telling, however, is that the vast majority of his work has remained in print constantly since its first publication.
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