Skip to content
Niven, Larry

Niven, Larry

Author Biography & Works

Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven

Books by Niven, Larry

Ringworld (1971)

Ringworld (1971)

(Ringworld) Start here

In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a...

The shortlist

New releases and the lists readers are opening most, by email.