Three Books of Known Space

by NIVEN, LARRY

• ISBN13: 9780345404480
• ISBN10: 0345404483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-03
• Publisher: Del Rey

Summary

Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous future history: Known Space! WORLD OF PTAVVS Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and telepath Larry Greenberg knew everything he was thinking. Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets . . . and the planet Kzanol had in mind was Earth! A GIFT FROM EARTH Shrouded in lethal mists, the world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But still the planet had been colonized, and the settlers struggled to survive under a ruthless dictatorship on a rebellion-proof world . . . until fate dealt them a wild card named Matthew Keller, whose secret talent might just be their only hope! TALES OF KNOWN SPACE A classic collection of stories that traces humankind's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy from the twentieth century to the thirty-first . . . AND MORE: Larry Niven's latest thoughts on the evolution--both creative and "historical"--of known space, as well as an updated Timeline of Known Space and a complete Niven bibliography!

Author Biography

Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Kansas, in 1962, and completed one year of graduate work before he dropped out to write. His first published story, “The Coldest Place,” appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If. He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for “Neutron Star” and in 1974 for “The Hole Man.” The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol. His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Universe and Welcome Back!
The Coldest Place	p. 1
Becalmed In Hell	p. 6
Wait It Out	p. 20
Eye of an Octopus	p. 28
How the Heroes Die	p. 37
The Jigsaw Man	p. 62
World of Ptavvs	p. 74
At the Bottom of a Hole	p. 236
Intent to Deceive	p. 255
Cloak of Anarchy	p. 263
The Warriors	p. 284
Madness Has Its Place	p. 300
A Gift from Earth	p. 328
There Is a Tide	p. 544
Safe at Any Speed	p. 560
Afterthoughts	p. 564
Bibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven	p. 567
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