Larry Niven

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Title: The Mote In God's Eye (orbit Books): Description:
Aliens - Moties - were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet.

Title: Dream Park: The Voodoo Game: Description:
At the edge of the desert stands the Beehive, a city of the future abandoned after the Great Quake of 1995. In 2055 the ruined shell is due for renovation. But before the space carriers move in, Cowles Enterprises, owners of the Dream Park, unveil their plans for the game of Voodoo.

Title: A Gift From Earth (tales Of Known Space): Description:
DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Excellent' TIME OUT 'Larry Niven has ideas the size of planets'

Title: Oath Of Fealty (orbit Books): Description:
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have combined once again to produce an exciting, realistic and adventurous speculation in the spirit of their bestselling novels LUCIFER'S HAMMER and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. In OATH OF FEALTY they write with dazzling imagination of an extraordinary so - a quarter of a million people that towers above the slums of Los Angeles: Todos Sarrtos. And it is this 'modern castle' that forms the setting and inspiration for a stirring adventure story of the future.

Title: Lucifer's Hammer: Description:
The chances that LUCIFER'S HAMMER would hit the earth head-on were one in a million Then one in a thousand Then one in a hundred. And then... TERRIFYING... It's the best end-of-the-world story since ON THE BEACH... superb detail, shudderingly believable.' FRANK HERBERT 'A blockbuster of a read... Niven and Pournelle are two of the best storytellers around, with that rare ability to put you, the reader, there, terrified out of your wits as one sledgehammer twist follows another.' GORDON THOMAS, author of THE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

Title: Footfall: Description:
WEN AND POURNELLE HAVE PRODUCED ANOTHER WORLD-IN-PERIL WINNER... I LOVED IT!' Frank Herbert It was big all right, far bigger than any craft any human had seen. It had been decelerating for weeks and it was still travelling fast enough to escape the Sun's gravity with ease. Now it was heading for Earth. The best brains in the business reckoned that any spacecraft nearing the end of a journey that might have taken centuries would just have to be friendly. But they were wrong! Catastrophically wrong! The most successful collaborative team in the history of science fiction has combined again to produce a devastating and totally convincing novel of alien invasion. FOOTFALL-the ultimate disaster

Title: Legacy Of Heorot: Description:
A Novel of Visionary Terror and Adventure! Light years from Earth, the pinnacle of Mankind's genius is reached: two hundred men and women carve an idylic, self-sufficient colony out of the vast planet Tau Certi Four. Amoung the biologists, genetic engineers and farmers is one man who urges caution-Colonel Cadmann Weyland, a warrior amoung strangers...

Title: Ringworld: Description:
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel....the gripping story of a ring-shaped world around a distant sun.

Title: The Burning Tower: Description:
The people of Tep's Town are desperate. Monstrous invaders have emerged from the desert, and people are being slaughtered. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep's Town itself will die. The fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the town's residents unprotected for the first time in its history ? and they now face an army of fearsome birds with blades for wings, consumed by an inexorable lust for blood. Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel far beyond the walls of their home to discover the origin of these terror birds. They enter a world where magic is still strong ? and someone or something has been waiting to destroy them ...

Title: The Burning City: Description:
Whandall was himself one of the Lordkin, but his curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. About the Author Larry Niven is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of such classics as RINGWORLD and RAINBOW MARS. In addition to being an acclaimed science fiction author, Jerry Pournelle holds degrees in engineering, psychology and political science.

Title: The Flight Of The Horse: Description:
"We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up," Ra Chen had told him. He didn't know precisely when, either. All he knew was that Hanville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2000 years. If successful, he wouldn't return alone. He would bring a creature long extinct - a horse. About the Author Larry Niven is one of the best-known names in science fiction. He is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of many classics in the genre, inlcuding most recently DESTINY'S ROAD.

Title: The Descent Of Anansi: Description:
Crisis on the Moon. The Colony is at a crossroads. Does it go for independence now? Or does it give in to the pressures from Earth and hand its future to the largest commercial bidder, however cynical its methods and motives?

Title: Destiny's Road: Description:
250 years ago, the starcruiser "Argos" brought the first settlers to Destiny - and abandoned them there. As the craft departed, it hovered above the planet and seared a wide Road into the rock. No settler has ever returned from the Road, but accused of murder, Jemmy Bloocher has no other escape. About the Author Larry Niven has the prestigious Hugo Award five times. He is known to millions as the premier modern author of rigorous, scientifically consistent hard Sf, the champion of 'SF without a net'.

Title: The Integral Trees (orbit Books): Description:
For five centuries they had survived, descendants of the mutinous crew of the starship 'Discipline'. The Earth, the State, even the Discipline were legend at best. The Smoke Ring was all they knew: an immense gaseous envelope formed around a neutron star and inhabited by free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly. This was their Universe. But slowly, they began the long climb from barbarism: and somewhere, beyond the Smoke Ring, the Discipline and its cyborg 'adviser' neared the end of its 500-year wait...

Title: Footfall: Description:
It was big alright. Far bigger than any craft any human had seen. It had been decelerating for weeks and it was still travelling fast enough to escape the sun's gravity with ease. Now it was headed for Earth.

Title: The Draco Tavern: Description:
When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann established a tavern catering to all of various species of visiting aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern. From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume, including: "The Subject Is Closed": A priest visits the tavern and goes one-on-one with a chirpsithra alien on the subject of God and life after death. "Table Mannners: A Folk Tale": Rick Schumann is invited to hunt with five folk aliens, but he's not quite sure what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted. "Wisdom of Demons": The age-old question of wisdom vs. knowledge is asked when Rick is confronted by a human who has been granted the wisdom of an individual gligstith(click)optok alien. "Losing Mars" in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet. Join Rick Schummann and his staff as they explore the alien passersby and attempt to chronicle the seemingly infinite alien species that spend a few moments pondering life and all its questions within the Draco Tavern.

Title: Oath Of Fealty: Description:
A few years after tomorrow, above a ruined Los Angeles where crime, violence, pollution and poverty rule the streets, a Utopia rises. Todos Santos. A thousand-foot-high single structured city. The perfect blend of technology and humanism, offering its priviledged dwellers everything they could want in exchange for the oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who would see Utopia destroyed. Those who would tear down the hope of tomorrow in violent act after violent act. And they have just entered Todos Santos.

Title: Ringworld: Description:
Won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. In "Ringworld" and "Ringworld Engineers" Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The centre of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles across and 600 million miles in circumference that is home to some 30 trillion diverse inhabitants. As in his past novels, Niven's characters in The Ringworld Throne spend their time unravelling the complex problems posed by their society.