The Hole Man Larry Niven Free Read
Crashlander
Larry Niven
Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been 1 of the most pop characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories--including a brand-new one--in i long tale of exploration and adventure! PLUS--an all-new framing story that pulls together all of Beowulf Shaeffer's adventures and allows Shaeffer and his family to make a clean start at life one time and for all!
Contents:
1 • Ghost • [Known Space] • novelette past Larry Niven
8 • Neutron Star • [Known Infinite] • (1966) • novelette by Larry Niven
32 • At the Cadre • [Known Space] • (1966) • novelette past Larry Niven
57 • Flatlander • [Known Space] • (1967) • novelette past Larry Niven
107 • Grendel • [Known Space] • (1968) • shortstory by Larry Niven
160 • The Frontier of Sol • [Known Infinite] • (1975) • novelette by Larry Niven
213 • Procrustes • [Known Space] • (1993) • novella by Larry Niven
The Magic May Return
Larry Niven
Once there was unlimited magic, simply reckless magicians have used up the mana, the ability backside the magic. Larry Niven opens his world to the storytelling talents of Poul Anderson, Steven Barnes, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Dean Ing with stories that tap the hidden reserves of mana and uncover the forgotten places of power.
The Magic Goes Away
Larry Niven
Larry Niven created his pop "Magic Goes Away" universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration e'er since. Past asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing world of wonder and loss, of promise and despair. The success of his get-go story collection, "The Magic Goes Away," birthed two sequel anthologies, "The Magic May Render" and "More Magic." All three volumes are collected here for the offset time, with stories by Niven himself, as well as contributions by such luminaries of fantasy every bit Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Steven Barnes, and Poul Anderson.
Featuring a brand-new introduction by Larry Niven, "The Magic Goes Away Collection" gives readers insight into the breathtaking earth of Niven and Jerry Pournelle'south "The Burning City" and "Burning Tower" and stands on its own as a landmark in fantasy fiction
Escape From Hell
Larry Niven
Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modernistic-24-hour interval Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But at present that he's returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he e'er again leave?
A World Out of Time
Larry Niven
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong movement while they were training him for a one-fashion mission to the stars.
Just Corbell picked his fourth dimension and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not attain him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised terminal escape from his captors.
And so he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had iii,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!
Destroyer of Worlds
Larry Niven
The scariest aliens in the galaxy follow a simple dominion: destroy all opposition.
The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy'southward core. Nada and no ane is going to impede their migration. Devastated worlds -- whatsoever civilization that could possibly have interfered -- lie shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights.
The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might take the resources to confront the threat -- merely Puppeteers are philosophical cowards. They don't confront anyone. They demand allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Who better than the Puppeteers' newly independent one-time slave world, New Terra?
Sigmund Ausfaller, onetime Globe intelligence amanuensis and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war confronting the Pak. With his own allies, the enigmatic, aquatic Gw'oth, Sigmund prepares to confront everyone'due south mutual enemy. And neither humans nor Gw'oth have any intention of becoming cannon provender.
Treasure Planet
Larry Niven
A stand-solitary novel in the best-selling Man-Kzin War anthology series created past multiple New York Times all-time seller Larry Niven. A swain and his Kzin friend seek technological compensation on a forbidden planet while in a race with Kzin space pirates willing to kidnap and kill to make the treasure their own.
A thrilling stand up-alone novel add-on to the long-running, popular Man-Kzin Wars series created by New York Times multiple best seller, Larry Niven.
"Ah, the wealth o' the treasure planet be beyond the dreams of Man or the hopes o' Kzin!"
On Wunderland, a generation after Liberation, memories of the bloody kzin conquest and Occupation accept faded, and men and kzin alive largely in peace. Simply the fabulous treasure of the kzin pirates, hidden on a afar earth, remains a magnet for freebooters. Immature Peter Cartwright and his kzinrett friend Marthar receive data and map from a most unlikely source and soon themselves fighting the most ruthless pirates in Known Space for an unimaginable prize.
About the Man-Kzin War Series:
"[The Man-Kzin Wars series is] excellent . . .gripping . . .and expands well on Larry Niven's universe. . . ." –Locus
Rainbow Mars
Larry Niven
Ein neuer Auftrag für Hanville Svetz: Er soll herausfinden, warum die Marskanäle ausgetrocknet sind und was dies für die Zukunft der Erde bedeutet. Denn der Mars war einmal bewohnt. Als Svetz erfährt, wie die intelligenten Marsianer ausgelöscht wurden, wird ihm klar, dass die Erde bald einem ähnlichen Schicksal zum Opfer fallen könnte. Es bleibt ihm nicht viel Zeit, dies zu verhindern
Der fünfmalige Hugo-Preisträger Larry Niven verknüpft Zeitreise und Fantasy, um einen einzigartigen Roman über den Ursprung der "Marskanäle" zu schaffen.
ISBN 3-404-24290-iv DM 16,xc
The Magic Goes Away Collection: The Magic Goes Away/The Magic May Return/More than Magic
Larry Niven
Larry Niven created his popular "Magic Goes Abroad" universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. Past asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing earth of wonder and loss, of hope and despair. The success of his first story drove, The Magic Goes Away, birthed two sequel anthologies, The Magic May Return and More than Magic. All three volumes are collected hither for the first time, with stories by Niven himself, every bit well as contributions by such luminaries of fantasy as Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Steven Barnes, and Poul Anderson.
Featuring a brand-new introduction past Larry Niven, The Magic Goes Away Collection gives readers insight into the breathtaking world of Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City and Burning Tower and stands on its own every bit a landmark in fantasy fiction
The Earth of Ptavvs
Larry Niven
Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a disquisitional level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry'southward mind is taken over by a sinister conflicting force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...
"Snappy, ingenious, and upbeat." - Galaxy
Fabricated the 1st ballot for the 1967 Nebula
Northward-Space
Larry Niven
On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was in one case asked to proper noun his favorite writer. His reply was "Larry Niven." Countless others concur. The Baltimore Lord's day and Kirkus Reviews accept both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of difficult SF," and Gregory Benford has hailed him as "the paradigm of SF personality of the last several decade."
Now Larry Niven presents us with his undisputed masterwork. N-Space contains, very simply, the best SF of his career--marvelous fiction, a wealth of anecdotes and gossip, plus Niven'south own special brand of wit and excitement.
Contents:
1 • Introduction: The Maker of Worlds • (1990) • essay by Tom Clancy
three • On Niven • (1992) • essay by Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes and David Brin and John Hertz and Wendy All and Gregory Benford
15 • Dramatis Personae • (1990) • essay by Larry Niven
25 • Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind • (1990) • essay by Larry Niven
31 • From World of Ptavvs (excerpt) • (1990) • shortfiction by Larry Niven
36 • Bordered in Black • (1966) • shortstory past Larry Niven
56 • Convergent Serial • (1967) • shortstory by Larry Niven (variant of The Long Nighttime)
62 • All the Myriad Ways • [Time Travel - Parallel Universe] • (1968) • shortstory by Larry Niven
73 • From A Gift From Earth (Excerpt) • (1990) • shortfiction past Larry Niven
90 • The Meddler • (1968) • novelette by Larry Niven
112 • Passerby • [State] • (1969) • shortstory by Larry Niven
126 • Down in Flames • (1969) • essay by Larry Niven
139 • From Ringworld (Excerpt) • (1990) • shortfiction past Larry Niven
148 • The Quaternary Profession • (1971) • novelette past Larry Niven
195 • "Shall Nosotros Indulge in Rishathra?" • (1978) • shortfiction by Larry Niven
195 • "Shall We Indulge in Rishathra?" • (1978) • interior artwork by William Rotsler
199 • Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex • (1969) • essay by Larry Niven
208 • Inconstant Moon • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven
234 • What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? • (1971) • shortstory by Larry Niven
245 • Cloak of Anarchy • [Known Space] • (1972) • shortstory by Larry Niven
269 • From Protector (excerpt) • (1990) • shortfiction past Larry Niven
279 • The Hole Man • (1974) • shortstory by Larry Niven
293 • Night on Mispec Moor • [State] • (1974) • shortstory by Larry Niven
305 • Flare Time • (1978) • novella by Larry Niven
347 • The Locusts • (1979) • novelette by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
389 • From The Mote in God'southward Eye (excerpt) • (1990) • shortfiction past Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
394 • Edifice the Mote in God's Eye • [A Stride Further Out] • (1976) • essay by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
420 • Brenda • (1988) • novella past Larry Niven
465 • The Return of William Proxmire • (1989) • shortstory by Larry Niven
475 • The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters • (1988) • shortstory by Larry Niven
491 • Madness Has Its Place • [Man-Kzin Wars] • (1990) • novelette by Larry Niven
519 • Niven's Laws (1990 version) • (1990) • essay by Larry Niven
528 • The Kiteman • [Integral Trees] • (1990) • novelette by Larry Niven
571 • The Alien in Our Minds • (1987) • essay by Larry Niven
580 • Space • (1990) • essay by Larry Niven
597 • Bibliography of Larry Niven • (1990) • essay by uncredited
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven
Larry Niven
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 exist 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...just no i would ever meet it!
The jigsaw man
The organ banks want yous...at present!
Cloak of anarchy
They were free to be anything merely tearing...only that wasn't enough!
-- plus viii other corking 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 Infinite stories!
Timeline for Known Space
My Universe and Welcome To It!
Coldest Place, The
Becalmed in Hell
Wait it Out
Eye of an Octopus
How the Heroes Die
The Jigsaw Man
At the Bottom of a Hole
The Deceivers
Cloak of Anarchy
Warriors, The
The Borderland of Sol
In that location is a Tide
Prophylactic at Any Speed
Afterthoughts
Bibliography: The Worlds of Larry Niven
Juggler of Worlds
Larry Niven
For besides long, the Puppeteers accept controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings . . .
Covert amanuensis Sigmund Ausfaller is World's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both homo and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to betrayal the stray plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elderberry race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Globe'southward traitors and adversaries, fifty-fifty after the race he reperesents abruptly vanishes from Known Infinite.
Every bit a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would terminate horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift...
But fifty-fifty Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations volition take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-caput aliens find immense construction in unexplored function of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a squad of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eight-foot cerise-fur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at middle. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long trek.
The Ringworld Throne
Larry Niven
Come dorsum to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, abode to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the near honey science fiction stories ever written!
The human being, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own calendar--if anyone dares arroyo them to learn.
Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. At present information technology looks equally if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit down on the Ringworld Throne?
"Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this volume is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps upwards (peradventure) a corner of a very interesting universe".
--San Diego Union-Tribune
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