Bibliography

Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips

Opus No. Title Date Setting Publication type I.U.C.sort ascending Notes
Second Thoughts June, 1985 N/A Non-Fiction Follow-up notes by various participants in the Medea: Harlan's World world-building seminar. Other contributors include Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Thomas M. Disch & Frederik Pohl
Biology, Ecology, Xenology June, 1985 N/A Non-Fiction Part of the writers' guide for the Medea: Harlan's World world-building seminar.
141 Niven's Laws December, 1984 N/A Collection Collection info: Contents: introduction by Jerry Pournelle. Schumann Computer, The Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing! Grammar Lesson Subject is Closed, The Cruel and Unusual Green Marauder, The Limits War Movie Real Thing, The Table Manners Niven's Laws Convention Stories Staying Rich Theory and Practice of Instant Learning, The If Idi Amin Had Had The Bomb Roentgen Standard, The In Memoriam: Howard Grote Littlemead Why Men Fight Wars and What You Can Do About It Collaborations Five Years to Infinity
151 Limits February, 1985 N/A Collection Collection info Contents: Introduction Lion in his Attic, The Spirals Teardrop Falls, A Talisman Flare Time Locusts, The Roentgen Standard, The Table Manners Green Marauder, The War Movie Real Thing, The Limits
157 Tell Me A Story January, 1986 N/A Non-Fiction Advice for writers
Review of Contact August, 1986 N/A Review Review of Carl Sagan's Contact
Memoir September, 1986 Non-Fiction Niven describes his relationship with the editor of If, Frederik Pohl, and the writing of the award-winning Neutron Star
Bulletin Symposium: What Should Science Fiction Be? January, 1987 N/A Non-Fiction
169 Prisoner Revisited, The July, 1987 N/A Review Read It Here! An article on the '60s TV show and the impact it had on Niven and other LASFS members.
Introduction to Man-Kzin Wars I January, 1988 Known Space: About Introduction Like the title says
165 Next Time January, 1988 Stand Alone Short Story Read It Here! a 100-word "drabble" for The Drabble Project
170 Horror Stories for Bright People February, 1988 N/A Review Review of Greg Benford's In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, and Great Sky River
Sideways in Time, an introduction to Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee May, 1988 N/A Introduction An essay about alternate history stories, published as an introduction to Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore, for a "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" limited-edition leatherbound reprint of the 1955 classic, featuring art by A.C. Farley.
Read This September, 1988 Essay Reviews of (nonfiction): Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking Infinite in All Directions, by Freeman Dyson Mirror Matter, by Robert L. Forward and Joel Davis and (fiction) Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Bulletin Symposium: The Worst Mistake You Ever Made January, 1989 N/A Non-Fiction Article about why Niven considers "The Ethics of Madness" a failed story.
Ringworld Retrospective April, 1989 N/A Non-Fiction Like the title says. A look back at the impact of Ringworld.
Read This May, 1989 N/A Essay Review of Deep Time: The Journey of a Single Sub-Atomic Particle from the Moment of Creation to the Death of the Universe--and Beyond, by David Darlin
175 Man-Kzin Wars II August, 1989 Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars Anthology Anthology edited by Larry Niven and James Baen, with a new introduction by Niven
Response to "The New Generation Gap" September, 1989 N/A Essay Invited response to "The New Generation Gap: A Study of SF Writers' Ages of Professional Entry into the Science Fiction Field for Six Decades of SF", by Kathryn Cramer, which was published in The New York Review of Science Fiction #11, July 1989. Appears alongside essays on "The New Generation Gap" by Clarke, Delaney, Dickson, Leiber, Brin and others.
Read This November, 1989 N/A Essay Review of The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson

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