You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Please try again. all of which are in this future history series. I still enjoyed reading this book again. In Howie's very unusual spacecraft has developed a fault that might require some canny thought to fix it. Boosterspice only works on Homo sapiens, whereas the Tree-of-Life compound will work on any hominid descended from the Pak. Compared to other sci-fi authors, this is a 3.5-star book. The programming of these probes was flawed: they sent back a "good for colonization" message if they found a habitable point, rather than a habitable planet. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) catalogs all works set in the fictional universe that includes Known Space under the series name Tales of Known Space, which was the title of a 1975 collection of Niven's short stories. What a Universe he's created. Storie mediocri e datate, non certo il meglio di Niven.In una, how an hero dies, si respira un lezzo di insopportabile omofobia. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. Stepping disks are a teleportation technology. Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. What a Universe he's created. What a Universe he's created. . Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Try again. I recently decided to re-read a bunch of Larry Niven stories from his Known Space Series, but was at a complete loss about the read order of the various stories, short stories and novels that encompass the timeline. Please try again. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven Paperback - November 12, 1985 by Larry Niven (Author) 59 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $5.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $5.61 24 Used from $1.63 Mass Market Paperback $5.88 12 Used from $4.00 2 New from $37.79 : There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Coin slots and a telephone dial were set into the glass at sternum level" (from Flash Crowd). In his essay on the theme of "Future Histories", Alastair Reynolds said that Known Space was the first of the kind he encountered as a teenager and remembered reading this collection (though he incorrectly gives the title as Tales from Known Space). Niven has a knack for entertaining his readers by including the surprising and unusual. [a] There are also two or three short stories which share common themes and some background elements with Known Space stories, but which are not considered a part of the Known Space universe: "One Face" (1965) and "Bordered in Black" (1966)[11]both in the 1979 collection Convergent Seriesand possibly "The Color of Sunfire", published online[8] and listed here. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Filk singing. Nevertheless, in many Known Space stories, ARM agents operate or exert influence in other human star systems through the "Bureau of Alien Affairs" (see In the Hall of the Mountain King, Procrustes, The Borderland of Sol, and "Neutron Star"). I still enjoyed reading this book again. Late in the series, Known Space is an irregularly shaped "bubble" about 60 light-years across. His manga works "Galaxy Express 999" and "Space Pirate Captain Herlock" were adapted into television anime series in the 1970s and became huge hits in and outside Japan. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. There was a problem loading your book clubs. [1] The first-published work in the series, which was Niven's first published piece was "The Coldest Place", in the December 1964 issue of If magazine, edited by Frederik Pohl. There is a bit of jumping around and pulling chapters out of certain books, but this is what I ended up with. Larry Niven has won the prestigious Hugo Award five times. He has advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science. JERRY POURNELLE is an essayist, journalist, and science fiction author. In
Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunctionbut it might be only psychosomatic!
Wait it out
He was trapped on Plutoand all his assets were frozen!
The borderland of Sol
Forward possessed the ultimate weaponbut no one would ever see it!
The jigsaw man
The organ banks want younow!
Cloak of anarchy
They were free to be anything but violentbut that wasn't enough!
-- plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the futureand, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories! Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets and drouds (wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain), and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging (as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths (teleporters used only on planetary surfaces), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the droud which works without direct contact. Some of the stories are outdated but it's interesting to see how things have changed. This is used in World of Ptavvs where humans develop a stasis field technology and realize that a mirrored artifact known as the Sea Statue must be actually an alien in a stasis field. 'Twas a task not taken lightly. . TOKYO (AP) Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for "Space Battleship Yamato" and other classics using a fantastical style and antiwar themes, has died at age 85. It also enabled the crime of "organlegging" which lasted well into the 24th century. Some of the stories are outdated but it's interesting to see how things have changed. Unlike the booths, the disks do not require an enclosed chamber, and somehow can differentiate between solid masses and air, for example. Although the Known Space universe has a well defined chronology, most of the stories can be read independently. The hulls are impervious to any type of matter or energy, with the exception of antimatter (which destroys the hull, as demonstrated in "Flatlander"), gravitation (demonstrated in "Neutron Star"), and visible light (which passes through the hull). This book was collected in Three Books of Known Space. In Fleet of Worlds, the characters tour a General Products factory and receive clues that allow them to destroy a General Products hull from the inside using only a high-powered interstellar communications laser. What if it was only the beginning? Learn more. Saving to read later, but the ability to source through the Amazon network just excellent, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find the book. In
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