Larry Niven Bibliography

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#1
Short Stories
1964
The Coldest Place
1965
Becalmed in Hell
1965
Wrong-Way Street
1966
Eye of an Octopus
1966
The Warriors
1966
Bordered in Black
1966
By Mind Alone
1967
The Jigsaw Man
1967
Safe at Any Speed
1968
Wait It Out
1968
Intent to Deceive
1968
There Is a Tide
1968
For a Foggy Night
1968
All the Myriad Ways
1968
Dry Run
1968
Like Banquo's Ghost
1969
Not Long Before the End
1969
Passerby
1969
The Flight of the Horse
1971
Wait It Out
1971
Not Long Before the End
1971
Unfinished Story #1
1971
Unfinished Story #2
1971
What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?
1971
Leviathan!
1971
There's a Wolf in My Time Machine
1971
No Exit
1971
The Last Necronomicon
1973
Death in a Cage
1973
The Alibi Machine
1973
All the Bridges Rusting
1974
The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club
1974
A Kind of Murder
1974
$16,940.00
1974
The Hole Man
1974
Chronology
1974
Night on Mispec Moor
1974
Plaything
1974
Singularities Make Me Nervous
1974
The Nonesuch
1974
TrantorCon Report
1976
Mistake
1977
Grammar Lesson
1977
The Subject Is Closed
1977
Cruel and Unusual
1977
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation
1978
Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!
1978
Transfer of Power
1978
Cautionary Tales
1978
Shall We Indulge in Rishathra?
1979
The Schumann Computer
1979
In the Cellar
1980
The Green Marauder
1980
Bleeding Maze
1980
Retrospective
1981
Limits
1981
War Movie
1982
The Real Thing
1983
Reflex
1983
A Teardrop Falls
1984
Folk Tale
1984
One Night at the Draco Tavern
1985
More Tales from Draco Tavern
1986
The Deadlier Weapon
1988
The Dreadful White Page
1988
The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters
1988
Next Time
1989
The Wishing Game
1989
The Portrait of Daryanree the King
1989
The Return of William Proxmire
1990
Convergent Series
1990
Madness Has Its Place
1991
Ghetto? But I Thought...
1991
Letter
1991
Adrienne and Irish Coffee
1991
The California Voodoo Game
1992
Nakagawa's Law
1993
The Color of Sunfire
1993
The Léshy Circuit: Unfinished Script for Planetarium Show
1993
The South Los Angeles Broadcasting System
1993
It's Only a Story
1998
Choosing Names
1999
Get a Horse!
1999
Wisdom
2000
Smut Talk
2000
The Wisdom of Demons
2000
The Missing Mass
2000
Loki
2001
The Heights
2001
Ssoroghod's People
2002
The Convergence of the Old Mind
2002
Chrysalis
2002
Choosing Life
2002
Finding Myself
2003
Did the Moon Move for You, Too?
2003
The Ones Who Stay Home
2003
The Death Addict
2004
Lost
2004
Storm Front
2004
Chicxulub
2004
Boomerang
2005
The Slow Ones
2005
Rhinemaidens
2005
The Hunting Park
2006
Playhouse
2006
Losing Mars
2006
Playground Earth
2006
Cadet Amelia
2006
The Solipsist at Dinner
2007
The Gatherers' Guild
2009
Passing Perry Crater Base, Time Uncertain
2009
Dark Energies
2010
After Mecca
2010
Cat Toy
2010
Boys and Girls Together
2010
Safe Harbor
2010
The Artists
2010
Betelgeuse
2010
Doubling Rate
2010
Gates (Variations)
2011
The Flare Weed
2012
The Man in the Pink Shirt
2014
God Walks Into a Bar
2014
The Far End
2015
Closing Sale
2016
Story Night at the Stronghold
2017
The Dead Guest of Honor Speech
2017
By the Red Giant's Light
2022
Sacred Cow
#2
Novellas
1965
World of Plavvs
1967
The Soft Weapon
1967
The Adults
1969
Death by Ecstasy
1973
Flash Crowd
1975
ARM
1976
The Magic Goes Away
1979
Spirals
1988
Brenda
1993
Procrustes
1995
Song of the Night People
2000
Fly-By-Night
2012
The Secret of Black Ship Island
2014
Red Tide
 
 
#3
Novelettes
1965
One Face
1966
How the Heroes Die
1966
At the Bottom of a Hole
1966
At the Core
1966
A Relic of the Empire
1967
The Handicapped
1967
Flatlander
1967
The Ethics of Madness
1968
Neutron Star
1968
Grendel
1968
The Meddler
1970
Bird in the Hand
1971
Inconstant Moon
1971
Rammer
1971
The Fourth Profession
1972
Cloak of Anarchy
1972
What Good Is a Glass Dagger?
1973
The Defenseless Dead
1975
The Borderland of Sol
1975
Down and Out
1978
Flare Time
1979
The Locusts
1981
Talisman
1982
The Lion in His Attic
1989
The Murder of Halley's Comet
1990
The Kiteman
1990
Mom and the Kids
1994
Ghost
1995
The Woman in Del Ray Crater
2001
Ice and Mirrors
2002
Free Floaters
2003
The Trellis
2005
Kath and Quicksilver
2007
The Terror Bard
2014
Dial at Random
2016
Mice Among Elephants
 
 
#4
Novels
1966
World of Ptavvs
1968
A Gift from Earth
1970
Ringworld
1971
The Flying Sorcerers
1973
Protector
1974
The Mote in God's Eye
1976
Inferno
1976
A World Out of Time
1976
The Children of the State
1977
Lucifer's Hammer
1978
The Magic Goes Away
1980
The Patchwork Girl
1980
The Ringworld Engineers
1981
Oath of Fealty
1981
Dream Park
1981
The Magic May Return
1982
The Descent of Anansi
1984
The Integral Trees
1984
More Magic
1984
Berserker Base: A Collaborative Novel
1985
Footfall
1987
The Legacy of Heorot
1987
The Smoke Ring
1988
The Man-Kzin Wars
1989
The Man-Kzin Wars II
1989
The Barsoom Project
1990
The Man-Kzin Wars III
1990
Cathouse: A Novel of the Man-Kzin Wars
1991
The Man-Kzin Wars IV
1991
The Children's Hour: A Novel of the Man-Kzin Wars
1991
Inconstant Star
1991
Achilles' Choice
1991
Fallen Angels
1992
The Man-Kzin Wars V
1992
The California Voodoo Game
1993
The Gripping Hand
1994
The Man-Kzin Wars VI
1995
The Man-Kzin Wars VII
1995
Beowulf's Children
1996
The Ringworld Throne
1996
A Darker Geometry
1997
Destiny's Road
1999
Rainbow Mars
2000
The Burning City
2000
Saturn's Race
2002
The Man-Kzin IX
2002
The Houses of the Kzinti
2003
The Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War
2004
Ringworld's Children
2005
The Man-Kzin Wars XI
2005
Burning Tower
2005
Building Harlequin's Moon
2007
Fleet of Worlds
2007
Destiny's Forge: A Man-Kzin Wars Novel
2008
Juggler of Worlds
2009
Destroyer of Worlds
2009
The Man-Kzin Wars XII
2009
Escape from Hell
2010
Betrayer of Worlds
2011
The Moon Maze Game
2012
Fate of Worlds
2012
The Man-Kzin Wars XIII
2012
Bowl of Heaven
2013
The Man-Kzin Wars XIV
2013
The Goliath Stone
2014
Shipstar
2016
The Seascape Tattoo
2019
The Man-Kzin Wars XV
2020
Starborn & Godsons
2020
Glorious
#5
Short Story Collections
1968
Neutron Star
1969
The Shape of Space
1971
All the Myriad Ways
1973
The Flight of the Horse
1973
Inconstant Moon
1974
A Hole in Space
1975
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven
1976
The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton
1979
Convergent Series
1984
The Time of the Warlock
1985
Limits
1993
Bridging the Galaxies
1994
Crashlander
1995
Flatlander
1996
Three Books of Known Space
1999
Rainbow Mars
2003
Scatterbrain
2003
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1
2003
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2
2003
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3
2006
The Draco Tavern
2010
Stars and Gods
2010
The Best of Larry Niven
2010
Strange Light
2017
Madness from the Inconstant Moon: A Collection of Short Works by Larry Niven
 
 
#6
Essays
1969
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
1969
Down in Flames
1969
Exercise in Speculation: The Theory of Practice of Teleportation
1971
The Theory and Practice of Time Travel
1971
My World and Welcome to It
1973
Collaborations
1973
Busted Kneecap
1973
Dry Martini
1973
Irish Coffee
1974
Bigger than Worlds
1975
Timeline for Known Space
1975
Afterthoughts
1975
Galaxy Stars: J.E. Pournelle
1975
Biology, Ecology, Xenology
1976
Building the Mote in God's Eye
1976
Collaboration
1976
Afterword: The Last Word About SF Detectives
1976
The Implications of Genetic Engineering
1976
The Words in Science Fiction
1976
The Notebooks of Mack Sikes
1977
Telepathy, Psionics and ESP
1977
An Introduction to Jerry Pournelle
1979
Staying Rich
1979
Future Histories
1979
Silverlock's Progress?
1979
Dreams of Empire
1980
Yet Another Modest Proposal
1980
The Known Space Series
1981
On the Marching Morons
1981
The Alien Invasion
1982
How I Stole the Belt Civilization
1983
The Force Is with Us Right Now
1984
Niven's Laws
1984
Convention Stories
1984
The Theory and Practice of Instant Learning
1984
If Idi Amin Had the Bomb...
1984
The Roentgen Standard
1984
Why Men Fight Wars, and What You Can Do About It!
1984
Five Years to Infinity
1984
The Science Fiction Writer at Work: Equipment, Method and the Rest
1984
Collaboration
1986
Tell Me a Story
1987
The Alien in Our Minds
1989
Criticism
1989
Ringworld Retrospective
1990
Space
1990
Blind Alleys
1990
Dramatis Personae
1990
My Favorite Story
1991
Thraxisp: A Memoir
1991
The Lost Ideas
1991
Comics
1992
Where Next, Columbus?
1992
Works in Progress
1993
Tabletop Fusion
1993
Intercon Trip Report: August 12, 1991
1996
Catfish and Read Meat Flavoring
1999
Svetz and the Beanstalk
1999
The Reference Director Speaks
2002
Niven's Laws, 2002
2003
Introduction: Where Do I Get My Crazy Ideas
2003
Mars: Who Needs It?
2003
How to Save Civilization and Save a Little Money
2003
Discussion with Brenda Cooper re: Ice and Mirrors
2003
Telepresence
2003
Learning to Love the Space Station
2003
Autograph Etiquette
2003
Handicap
2003
Hugo Awards Anecdotes
2003
Epilogue: What I Tell Librarians
2003
Canon for the Man-Kzin Wars
2003
Did the Moon Move for You Too?
2007
Robert Bussard
2010
Traveler
2010
Rocket Men
2010
Wet Mars
2010
Hooking the Reader
2010
Food Story for the Con Jose Program Book
2010
Inconstant Moon Has Passed
2014
Introducing Matthew J. Harrington
2015
One Month a Grand Master
2018
God Needs Collaborators
2019
Retrospective
2020
Big Smart Objects
2022
The Start of a Beautiful Friendship
 
 
#7
Writings Collections
1984
Niven's Laws
1990
N-Space
1991
Playgrounds of the Mind
 
 
#8
Poems
1984
In Memoriam: Howard Grote Littlemead
1991
Wanted Fan
 
 
#9
Companion Book
1994
Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld
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