Wrong Way Street (1965) Galaxy, April All the Myriad Ways (1968) All the Myriad Ways For a Foggy Night (1971) All the Myriad Ways WARLOCK Not Long before the End (1969) All the Myriad Ways Unfinished Story #1 (1970) All the Myriad Ways What Good Is a Gla.s.s Dagger? The Flight of the Horse (1972) WORKS NOT PART OF ANY NIVEN SERIES:.
The Long Night (1967) Dry Run (1968) Like Banquo"s Ghost (1968) The Meddler (1968) The Deadlier Weapon (1969) The Misspelled Magishun (1970) No Exit (1971) Unfinished Story #2 (1971) Inconstant Moon (1971) What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? (1971) The Hole Man (1974) $16,940.00 (1974).
Plaything (1974) The Mote in G.o.d"s Eye (1974) The Nonesuch (1974) NONFICTION.
Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation (1969) All the Myriad Ways Down in Flames (1969) Trumpet, No. 9 The Theory and Practice of Time Travel (1971) All the Myriad Ways Man of Steel-Woman of Kleenex (1971) All the Myriad Ways Bigger Than Worlds (1974) A Hole in s.p.a.ce WORKS WHICH HAVE NOT APPEARED.
IN A NIVEN COLLECTIVE TO DATE:.
Wrong Way Street (1965) By Mind Alone (1966) No Exit (1971) STORY COLLECTIONS.
A1. Neutron Star, Ballantine, April 1968 Neutron Star (1966) A Relic of the Empire (1966) At the Core (1966) The Soft Weapon (1967) Flatlander (1967) The Ethics of Madness (1967) The Handicapped (1967) Grendel (1967) A2. The Shape of s.p.a.ce, Ballantine, September 1969 The Warriors (1966) Safe at Any Speed (1967) How the Heroes Die (1966) At the Bottom of a Hole (1966) Bordered in Black (1966) Like Banquo"s Ghost (1968) One Face (1965) The Meddler (1968) Dry Run (1968) Convergent Series (1967)+ The Deadlier Weapon (1968) Death by Ecstasy (1969)+ A3. All the Myriad Ways, Ballantine, June 1971 All the Myriad Ways (1968) Pa.s.serby (1969) For a Foggy Night (1971) Wait It Out (1968) The Jigsaw Man (1967) Not Long before the End (1969) Unfinished Story #1 (1970) Unfinished Story #2 (1971) Man of Steel-Woman of Kleenex (1971) Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation (1969) The Theory and Practice of Time Travel (1971) Inconstant Moon (1971) What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? (1971) Becalmed In h.e.l.l (1965) A4. The Flight of the Horse, Ballantine, September 1973 The Flight of the Horse (1969)+ Leviathan (1970) Bird in the Hand (1970) There"s a Wolf in My Time Machine (1970) Death In a Cage (1973) Flash Crowd (1973) What Good Is a Gla.s.s Dagger? (1972) Afterward (1973) A5. A Hole In s.p.a.ce, Ballantine, June 1974 Rammer (1971) The Alibi Machine (1973 The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club (1974) A Kind of Murder (1974) All the Bridges Rusting (1973) There Is a Tide (1968) Bigger Than Worlds (1974) $16,940.00 (1974).
The Hole Man (1974) The Fourth Profouion (1971) A6. Tales of Known s.p.a.ce, Ballantine, August 1975 The Coldest Place (1964) Becalmed in h.e.l.l (1965) Wait It Out (1968) Eye of an Octopus (1966) How the Heroes Die (1966) The Jigsaw Man (1967) At the Bottom of a Hole (1966) Intent to Deceive (1968)+ Cloak of Anarchy (1972) The Warriors (1966) The Borderland of Sol (1975) There is a Tide (1968) Safe at Any Speed (1967) A7. The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton, Ballantine, February 1976 Death by Ecstasy (1969) The Defenseless Dead (1973) ARM (1975).
+ t.i.tle changed for novelization or appearance in a collection; see "t.i.tle Changes," above.
NOVELS.
Nl. World of Ptavvs, Ballantine, August 1968; a shorter version, "World of Ptavvs," appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, March 1965; Known s.p.a.ce N2. A Gift from Earth, Ballantine, September 1968; originally appeared as s...o...b..ut Cargo In Galaxy, February, March, and April 1968; Known s.p.a.ce.
N3. Ringworld, Ballantine, October 1970; original book publication, no serialization; Known s.p.a.ce.
N4. The Flying Sorcerers (w. David Gerrold), Ballantine, August 1971; originally appeared as "The Misspelled Magishun" in Worlds of If, May-July 1970, not part of a series.
N5. Protector, Ballantine, September 1973, the first half, of the novel, "Phssthpok" appeared as "The Adults" in Galaxy, June 1967; Known s.p.a.ce.
N6. The Mote in G.o.d"s Eye (w. Jerry Pournelle), Simon and Schuster, October 1974; original book publication, no serialization; not part of a series.
About the Cover THE COLORED BAUBLES set against the background of a spiral galaxy represent some of the stars closest to our sun, the G-type star Sol. Many of them are the settings for stories Larry Niven has written dealing with a thirty-light year diameter volume of the sky called Known s.p.a.ce.
Readers already familiar with the Known s.p.a.ce series will immediately recognize names such as Wunderland, Down, and Jinx as but a few of the fascinating and sometimes dangerous planets on and around which s.p.a.ce-faring man has travelled..
The story of how the cover ill.u.s.tration came about is interesting in that it combined the talents of people in three different disciplines, all working in the field of science fiction: the author, editor, and art director; the artist; and a particular group of intelligent readers in Boston, Ma.s.sachusetts; who have been busily cataloging everything in Known s.p.a.ce.
After a preliminary sketch of the galaxy was approved, I set out to try to render the local star group.
When I approached James L. Burrows, a member of the New England Science Fiction a.s.sociation who is conversant with computers, he had, not surprisingly, already written a program to produce the position map. What the computer gave him were the coordinates for the stars on a two-dimensional grid, as though viewed from roughly sixty-three degrees above the plane of the Milky Way. He put it simply: "Imagine traveling in s.p.a.ce along the Earth"s--pointed at the North Star--and looking back past the sun from a great many light years. This is what you"d see."
Just how big would Known s.p.a.ce be in this view of the galaxy?
Obviously the brightly painted stars in the foreground are part of an enlarged picture of the local neighborhood. If the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across, then, at the size of a paperback cover, all of Known s.p.a.ce is a pinpoint .001"--a thousandth of an inch-- from edge to edge.
One of the rewards of my kind of work is that I can add things to paintings that are visible on the original board, but not always in the reproduced version. Or are they?
If you look carefully, you"ll find all fourteen black holes, two Puppeteer-built General Products s.p.a.cecraft hulls, egg-shaped Jinx, and... there. The Ringworld, too, of course.