Bibliography
Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips
| Opus No. | Title | Date | Setting |
Publication type |
I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| My Favorite Story | October, 1990 | N/A | Essay | Article about writing Inconstant Moon | ||
| Read This | September, 1991 | N/A | Essay | Review of Red Orc's Rage, by Philip José Farmer | ||
| Food Story for the Con Jose Program Book | September, 2003 | N/A | Essay | Niven talk about the effects of quitting smoking, on his taste buds and on his writing. | ||
| Robert Bussard | December, 2007 | N/A | Essay | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| Defenseless Dead, The; A Tale of Known Space | February, 1991 | Known Space: Gil Hamilton | Comic Book | Comic book based on Defenseless Dead, The |