Bibliography
Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips
| Opus No. | Title |
Date |
Setting | Publication type | I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blind Alleys | April, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Article about "a handful of mistakes" that writers have made, which "stupid people would never think of." | ||
| Read This | November, 1989 | N/A | Essay | Review of The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| Ringworld Retrospective | April, 1989 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Like the title says. A look back at the impact of Ringworld. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Bulletin Symposium: What Should Science Fiction Be? | January, 1987 | N/A | Non-Fiction | |||
| 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 | |||
| Review of Contact | August, 1986 | N/A | Review | Review of Carl Sagan's Contact | ||
| 157 | Tell Me A Story | January, 1986 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Advice for writers | |
| 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. | ||
| Introduction | February, 1985 | N/A | Introduction | introduction to Limits |