Author · born 1938
Larry Niven
Larry Niven is an American writer (born 1938). Born in Los Angeles.
Our catalogue lists 3 books by Larry Niven, mostly time-travel fiction, historical fantasy and mythic fiction. They span 1973 to 2009. The most-read is Flight of the Horse (1973).
Books by Larry Niven
Flight of the Horse
Larry Niven
The Burning City
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Escape From Hell
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Awards
- ✦Hugo Awards 1990 — Best Short Story, The Return of William Proxmire (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1986 — Best Novel, Footfall (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1985 — Best Novel, The Integral Trees (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1981 — Best Novel, The Ringworld Engineers (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1980 — Best Novelette, The Locusts (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1978 — Best Novel, Lucifer's Hammer (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Novel, Inferno (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Novelette, The Borderland of Sol (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Novella, ARM (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1975 — Best Novel, The Mote in God's Eye (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1975 — Best Short Story, The Hole Man (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1974 — Best Novel, The Mote in God's Eye (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1974 — Best Novel, Protector (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1972 — Best Novella, The Fourth Profession (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1972 — Best Short Story, Inconstant Moon (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1971 — Best Novel, Ringworld (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1970 — Best Short Story, Not Long Before the End (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1969 — Best Short Story, All the Myriad Ways (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1968 — Best Short Story, The Jigsaw Man (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1967 — Best Short Story, Neutron Star (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1985 — Best Novel, The Integral Trees (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1977 — Best Novel, Inferno (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1976 — Best Novel, The Mote in God's Eye (nominee)
- 🏆Nebula Awards 1971 — Best Novel, Ringworld (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1970 — Best Short Story, Not Long Before the End (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1968 — Best Novelette, Flatlander (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1966 — Best Short Story, Becalmed in Hell (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1966 — Best Short Story, Wrong-Way Street (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1979 — Best Short Fiction, The Magic Goes Away (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Shipstar (nominee)
Biography
**Laurence van Cott Niven** — known as *Larry Niven* — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic. Source: Wikipedia