Opus No. | Title | Date |
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Publication type | I.U.C. | Notes |
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My Universe and Welcome Back! | November, 1996 | Known Space: About | Introduction | New introduction for the new Known Space collection. The title is a direct reference to My Universe and Welcome To It! | ||
Bibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven | November, 1996 | Known Space: About | Non-Fiction | Annotated by "universe," lists latest publication only. Updated from the version in Tales of Known Space | ||
Canon for the Man-Kzin Wars | January, 2003 | Known Space: About | Non-Fiction | Like the title says | ||
Preface to Ringworld's Children | August, 2004 | Known Space: About | Non-Fiction | further discussion of Ringworld's literary and physical parameters | ||
1 | Coldest Place, The | December, 1964 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 01 (1985) | Niven's first published story saw print right around the same time that scientists determined with radar pulses that Mercury doesn't keep one face to the sun after all |
2 | World of Ptavvs | March, 1965 | Known Space | Novella | Expanded into novel form in 1966, see World of Ptavvs | |
3 | Wrong-Way Street | April, 1965 | Known Space | Short Stor | A stand-alone time-travel story. Niven credits his editor, Fred Pohl, with a great deal of help with this story: "He published my second story, "Wrong Way Street," in Galaxy. The title is his. He felt it needed a new first chapter for coherency, and he wrote that too." Note that the story reappears in Convergent Series without the hyphen in the title. | |
5 | Becalmed in Hell | July, 1965 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 02 (1985) | sequel to Coldest Place, The |
6 | Warriors, The | February, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 18 (2360) | 1st Man-Kzin War story |
7 | Eye of an Octopus | February, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 04 (1996) | Discovery of Martians |
10 | World of Ptavvs | June, 1966 | Known Space | Novel | K.S. 07 (2106) | This was Larry's first published full length novel. A shorter version of this story appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, March 1965 (#3). |
11 | How the Heroes Die | October, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 05 (2040) | Murder on Mars, and Martians |
12 | Neutron Star | October, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 22 (2644) | First Beowulf Shaeffer story and the first story set in the hyperdrive era of Known Space. |
13 | At the Core | November, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 24 (2646) | Beowulf discovers the core of the galaxy is exploding. First appearance of Long Sho |
14 | At the Bottom of a Hole | November, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 08 (2112) | Martians |
15 | Relic of the Empire, A | December, 1966 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 23 (2645) | First story that ties the world of Luke Garner to the world of Beowulf Shaeffer. |
16 | Soft Weapon, The | February, 1967 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 31 (2658) | Introduction of Nessus. Later made into "The Slaver Weapon," an animated Star Trek script, with Spock in Nessus' role. See: Slaver Weapon, The |
18 | Flatlander | March, 1967 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 25 (2646) | First appearance of Outsiders |
20 | Safe at Any Speed | May, 1967 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 40 (3101) | The "Last" Known Space story |
21 | Adults, The | May, 1967 | Known Space | Short Story | K.S. 12 (2125) | Protector part 1 |