Book in the Known Space Short Story Collections series
by Larry Niven
published 1975
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Thirteen interconnected short stories set in Larry Niven’s future history series, spanning the 20th to 31st centuries.
Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man’s expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy…
Becalmed in hell
Howie’s spaceship had a malfunction…but it might be only psychosomatic!
Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto…and all his assets were frozen!
The borderland of Sol
Forward possessed the ultimate weapon…but no one would ever see it!
The jigsaw man
The organ banks want you…now!
Cloak of anarchy
They were free to be anything but violent…but that wasn’t enough!
— plus eight other great stories in Niven’s spectacular cycle of the future…and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!
“Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven.”
– Orson Scott Card, author of ENDER’S GAME
“The scope of Larry Niven’s work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can.”
– Tom Clancy, author of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
“His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master!”
– Frederik Pohl
“Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction.”
writer.”
– The Baltimore Sun
“Niven … lifts the reader far from the conventional world — and does it with dash.”
– The Los Angeles Times
“Niven … juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift.”
– Charles Sheffield
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