Book Reviews (specific)

• Burning City Review by Robert Barror
• Destiny's Road Review

  From Science Fiction Age magazine, July 1997. Transcript courtesy of Dave Collins.

• The Mote in God's Eye Review by Douglas B. McElroy
• Protector Review by Douglas B. McElroy
• Rammer Review

  A review, by Duncan Galloway, of a spoken version of Rammer on compact cassette, released by Infinivox.

• Ringworld Review by Douglas B. McElroy

Book Reviews (multiple), Biographies and Bibliographies:

• Books of Larry Niven An (incomplete) page featuring summaries of Larry's works'.  by Epoch.
• Bücherliste (list of books)

  by Jürgen Weinelt. Jürgen's list includes cover scans and information from Ringworld, The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton, and Fallen Angels (German/English).

• Doug's Library - Larry Niven

  maintained by Douglas B. McElroy. Doug has summaries of many Niven collaborations and has also written his own reviews of Ringworld, Protector and The Mote in God's Eye.

• Ebooks at Fictionwise.com

  A small, but growing selection of ebooks available for direct download in a variety of ebook formats.  If you're local bookstore doesn't stock any Niven or the title you are searching for is now out of print, this is a good place to try.

• Larry Niven:  Author Information Page Hosted by booksnbytes.com
• Larry Niven Bibliography Hosted by Fantasticfiction.co.uk
• T&M's Online Bookstore

  A selection of Niven reviews.  To access the Larry Niven pages, go to Science Fiction, then Larry Niven.  Direct link not possible due to the site's framesets.

• Thomas Christensen's Book Reviews

  Reviews of Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, The Ringworld Throne, N-Space, The Mote in God's Eye, The Gripping Hand and finally the World of Ptavvs.

• Known Space Story List

  A Suggested Reading order for the new Niven reader by Raja Thiagarajan. This list was created after Protector and was voted as Book of the Month in May 2003 on the Hard SF yahoo discussion list.

Extrapolations

As Niven played with certain aspects of Known Space History in the unfinished novel Down in Flames, so others have challenged assumptions too:

• The Kzin Question: Reconciling the Kzin with the modern Star Trek Universe

  A Speculation by Allyn Gibson.  This essay asks if the Kzin should be considered part of the Star Trek Universe and if so, how can they be fit into the trek folklore without being contrary to its history.  This essay ponders the question of the early trek series, right up to the First Contact movie and postulates a way for the Kzin to exist.

• The Encyclopedia of Known Space

  by Brian O'Neill An excellent online encyclopedia of all things Niven. Highly recommended!

• The Up To Date Known space Chronology

  compiled by I. Marc Carlson This is a very detailed timeline for the Known Spaceuniverse, with additional contributions by Richard Holmes (see below) and converted to HTML by Larry King. Stories, novels, and significant events are all laid out in a continuous history all the way from the beginning of the universe to the projected end of life as we know it due to the galactic core explosion. Great job, guys.

• Technovelgy.com Larry's got 67 entries so far on this interesting site.

• Ain't It Cool News Website: Ringworld Movie Page

  This information page denounces James Cameron's involvement in the project following Larry's announcement at the Albacon Convention.

• Moviefans.de !!! Ringwelt A German Ringworld movie fan page.

• Ringworld

  by Mark Woolrich A very impressive graphical site which goes into detail describing the Ringworld to the layperson. There is also a Ringworld movie animation which is well worth a download.

• "Wait it Out" artwork by Joe Bergeron.

• Locus: Larry Niven Interview - Painful Fiction Excerpted from Locus Magazine - February 1997.

Filks: (Humourous Songs)

• One Minute Summary of Ringworld from Ringworks' Book-a-Minute site

  • Teela: I'm lucky.
  • Speaker-to-Animals: I'm fierce.
  • Nessus: I'm scared.
  • Louis: I'm old.
  • (They fly to the RINGWORLD, and it is COOL. They almost DIE. They LEAVE.)

  If you follow the link to the site you can read other hilarious summaries including one for Lucifer's Hammer, including other reviews of other works including 2001.

  Jokes

  • Niven Double Dactuls

    This is a collection of a type of poem about Niven's characters called a Double Dactul which was posted on the Larry Niven mailing list by various members and collected by fellow list member Jonathan Sheen

  • Niven's Laws Niven's guidance for surviving life, the universe and everything.
  • What I've Learned from Larry Niven A list of insights from members of the Larry Niven-L Mailing List.

• alt.books.larry-niven A newsgroup intended for discussion of Larry Niven's work and on Niven-related topics.
• rec.arts.sf.science

  A general newsgroup intended for the discussion of the science behind sf works of fiction.  This often includes postings about Niven's work, where boffins nitpick the math of Niven's literary inventions.  Fascinating really.