Niven, Larry

Ringworld (1971)

(Ringworld) Start here

In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a...

Mote Series

(Moties)

Starts with A Mote in God's Eye, the award winning first book in the series of 2 with the 3rd book written by one of the authors. Nothing will prepare...

The Gripping Hand

(Moties)

The Gripping Hand is the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, in which humans must keep the Moties confined without destroying them.

The Ringworld Engineers

(Ringworld)

Conversion of hardcopy paperback originally owned bu Boston Public Library. ePub version lacks material that was originally on the first page of many chapters, resulting in numerous discontinuities in the...

The Ringworld Throne

(Ringworld)

From back cover Del Rey paperback May 1997: *Come back to the Ringworld... the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a...

Ringworld's Children

(Ringworld)

"The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom...

Fate Of Worlds: Return From The Ringworld

(Ringworld)

Fate of Worlds is a Ringworld novel by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, in which Louis Wu and the Puppeteers face the end of Known Space.

Rainbow Mars

Already in this list we have met H.G. Wellss Martian invaders with their huge heads and tentacles, Ray Bradburys Martians who can appear just like the family you left at...

The Long Arm Of Gil Hamilton

(Known Space)

The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton is a collection of Larry Niven stories about a detective with a psychic arm, set in Known Space.

Flatlander

(Known Space)

Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate, his detective skills second to none, and his...

The World Of Ptavvs

(Known Space)

The World of Ptavvs is Larry Niven's early Known Space novel about an alien that wakes after a billion years and a telepath who must stop it.

Protector

(Known Space)

From the back cover: The Mission of Phssthpok Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years -- his mission, to save, develop and protect the group...

Neutron Star

(Known Space)

Neutron Star is a collection of Larry Niven's Known Space stories, including the Hugo-winning title story.

A Gift From Earth

(Known Space)

**No Place for Bleeding Hearts** The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans—it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life only existed on the one plateau, unreachable except from...

Fallen Angels

Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. A recursive sci fi novel that champions technology and makes fun of critics, fringe environmentalists, and ignorance in general.

The Integral Trees

(Smoke Ring) Start here

The story takes place around a neutron star and a gas giant with insufficient gravity to keep its atmosphere, resulting in a gas torus and smoke ring. The smoke ring...

Known Space

(Known Space)

Hyperspace in this series is another dimension where all objects move at a rate of 0.3 light years per day. Don't look directly at it—you just may go insane. The...