Bibliography

Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips

Opus No. Title Date Setting Publication type I.U.C.sort ascending Notes
Color of Sunfire, The November, 1993 Known Space Short Story K.S. 33 (2686) Read It Here! Mention of an alien race called the Pleione description of Silvereyes (Beta Hydri I) description of the Puppeteer homeworld. We finally catch up to Richard Harvey Shultz-Mann, forty years after Relic of the Empire, A
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.
61 Cloak of Anarchy March, 1972 Known Space Short Story K.S. 16 (2135) Read It Here! The story that led to a duel see Convention Stories
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...
Losing Mars January, 2006 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 25 Rick Schumann faces the possiblity that aliens may claim Mars as their property, and there's nothing humanity can do about it.
Lost January, 2006 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 24 Rick Schumann accepts an offer to take a quick joyride with an alien, unaware that Vanayn is a time-traveller with a hit-or-miss approach to navigation..
Playhouse January, 2006 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 23 The Draco Tavern plays host to some exuberant alien children.
Ssoroghod's People December, 2001 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 13 Draco Tavern maybe we should go to Mars after all?
142 Table Manners December, 1984 N/A Short Story D.T. 09
2 World of Ptavvs March, 1965 Known Space Novella Expanded into novel form in 1966, see World of Ptavvs  
24 Slowboat Cargo February, 1968 Known Space Short Story A Gift from Earth serialization
26 Neutron Star April, 1968 Known Space: Collection Collection Collected stories of Beowulf Shaeffer, as well as other Known Space stories. Contents: Neutron Star At the Core Relic of the Empire, A Soft Weapon, The Flatlander Ethics of Madness, The Handicapped, The Grendel
40 Shape of Space, The January, 1969 N/A Collection Early Niven Collection, later combined into Convergent Series. Contents: At the Bottom of a Hole Bordered in Black Deadlier Weapon, The Dry Run How the Heroes Die Like Banquo's Ghost Long Night, The Meddler, The One Face Organleggers, The Safe at Any Speed Warriors, The
54 All the Myriad Ways June, 1971 N/A Collection Contents: All the Myriad Ways Passerby For a Foggy Night Wait it Out Jigsaw Man, The Not Long Before the End Unfinished Story Unfinished Story #2 Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation Theory and Practice of Time Travel, The Inconstant Moon What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? Becalmed in Hell
62 Recipes January, 1973 N/A Non-Fiction From Amazon.com: "Anne McCaffrey's cookbook, featuring real (you can cook them) recipes created by science fiction and fantasy writers such as Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avram Davidson and of course Anne McCaffrey herself. Mixed in with the recipes are stories and anecdotes about how they were created - some longer than the recipes!" This classic from 1973 was revised and re-released by Wildside Press in 1992. The included Niven recipes (irish coffee and others) seem to be intended for a bartender rather than a chef, but then that's the role Niven often finds himself performing at conventions.
Afterword March, 1973 N/A Non-Fiction A word how the Svetz stories came to be written
64 Flight of the Horse, The September, 1973 Svetz Collection Contents: Get a Horse! Bird in the Hand Leviathan! There's a Wolf in My Time Machine Death in a Cage What Good is a Glass Dagger? Flash Crowd Afterword
Slaver Weapon, The December, 1973 Star Trek Script Airdate Dec. 15, 1973. This script (and the book adaptation that followed) sparked the ongoing debate about the existence of Kzinti in the Star Trek universe. Based on Soft Weapon, The
83 Galaxy Stars: Jerry Pournelle July, 1975 Non-Fiction: The Ghetto Non-Fiction Bio of Jerry Pournelle, with whom Niven had recently published The Mote in God's Eye and Inferno and was hard at work on Lucifer's Hammer.
Bibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven August, 1975 N/A Non-Fiction A broad but incomplete bibliography, helpfully broken out into different categories.

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