Bibliography
Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips
| Opus No. | Title |
Date |
Setting | Publication type | I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing Sale | May, 2015 | Draco Tavern | Short Story | When a transit strike in space causes a pile-up of ships in orbit around the moon, the Draco Tavern benefits from the glut of customers. But at what cost? | ||
| God Walks Into A Bar | September, 2014 | Draco Tavern | Short Story | Like the title says. Rick come into contact with an all-knowing, all-powerful being and must quickly discern its nature. After all, he has customers to serve. | ||
| Flare Weed, The | April, 2011 | Draco Tavern | Short Story | A customer at the Draco Tavern tells a story of a life form with a very intermittent lifestyle and specialized environmental needs, leading Rick Schumann to wonder about Earth's future. | ||
| After Mecca | August, 2010 | Stand Alone | Short Story | A political dialog between a President and a reporter, huddled in a bomb shelter two days after the terrorist nuclear attack | ||
| Larry Niven Interview by Brenda Cooper in 2000 AD | August, 2010 | N/A | Interview | Cooper asks Niven what the next iconic year will be and what will it hold for us, now that 2001 has passed. | ||
| Hooking the Reader | August, 2010 | The Ghetto | Essay | Niven writes briefly on how he has grown as a writer over the years. "I think I'm getting better at this," he winks. | ||
| Inconstant Moon Has Passed | August, 2010 | N/A | Essay | Hiking by the light of the brightest full moon in centuries reminds Niven of his award-winning short story Inconstant Moon | ||
| Cadet Amelia | August, 2010 | N/A | Short Story | What good is any home, whether on Earth or in space, without cats? | ||
| Cat Toy | August, 2010 | Magic Universe | Short Story | A researcher in Antarctica comes across a magician trapped in an eternal came of cat-and-mouse. | ||
| Safe Harbor | August, 2010 | Draco Tavern | Short Story | Rick Schumann talks to some alien pirates who have a very good reason to want to steal a Chirpsithra liner. | ||
| Boys and Girls Together | August, 2010 | Stand Alone | Short Story | Niven explores an idea hinted at in "Fly-By-Night." What if parents could stop their children from growing up? How long before society was changed irrevocably? | ||
| Stars and Gods | August, 2010 | N/A | Anthology | A collection of excerpts from Niven's short stories and novels from approx 2004 - 2010. Each selection is accompanied by a brief introduction. Contents: Excerpt from Ringworld's Children Excerpt from Rainbow Mars Excerpt from Escape from Hell Excerpt from Burning Tower Excerpt from Building Harlequin's Moon Excerpt from Fleet of Worlds Excerpt from Juggler of Worlds Excerpt from Beowulf's Children Excerpt from Achilles' Choice Svetz and the Beanstalk Choosing Names Fly-By-Night Hunting Park, The After Mecca Cadet Amelia Cat Toy Chicxulub Gatherer's Guild, The Solipsist at Dinner, The Boys and Girls Together Travelers Rocket Men Wet Mars (Larry Niven Talks Terraforming) Where Next, Columbus? Choosing Life Free Floaters Finding Myself Missing Mass, The Safe Harbor Hooking the Reader Larry Niven Interview by Brenda Cooper in 2000 AD Food Story for the Con Jose Program Book Inconstant Moon Has Passed | ||
| Strange Light | March, 2010 | N/A | Collection | Chapbook. Three new stories based on the paintings and sculpture of Lisa Snellings-Clark, including a Draco Tavern story. Limited to 1000 copies. Contents: Doubling Rate Artists, The Betelgeuse | ||
| On July 20th, 1969... | July, 2009 | N/A | Essay | A brief blog entry on Tor.com, recounting Larry's memories of Apollo 11 Read It | ||
| Passing Perry Crater Base, Time Uncertain | January, 2009 | Stand Alone | Short Story | A short tale that asks the profound question, "why would intelligent tool users abandon their moon?" | ||
| Nightmare: the Genetics Game | December, 2008 | N/A | Essay | Read It Here! A non-fiction essay with a theme similar to that of "It's Only a Story" and "Ssoroghod's People," reminding us that dangerous experiments with weapons, viruses or genetically tailored crops should take place on the moon, not in Earth's fragile biosphere. | ||
| Playground Earth | January, 2008 | Draco Tavern | Short Story | D.T. 26 | In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the Draco Tavern, Rick Schumann faces a planet that's suddenly anti-alien. But the aliens are here to stay... | |
| Robert Bussard | December, 2007 | N/A | Essay | |||
| Gatherer's Guild, The | February, 2007 | Stand Alone | Short Story | Michael Jones of SFsite.com writes "Larry Niven turns his attention towards the United States government, in 'The Gatherer's Guild.' Or rather, to the numerous secretive departments of the IRS, who possess technology and privileges beyond imagining." | ||
| Introduction | January, 2006 | N/A | Introduction | A new introduction to the Draco Tavern and its exotic inhabitants, written for the new collection Draco Tavern, The |