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FOUR TRAVELERS COME TO THE RINGWORLD... Louis Wu — human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus — a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular p... More

Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in... More

Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate, his detective skills second to none, and his psychic powers -- esper sense and telekinesis -- were awesome. Now you can read all the classic stories of the legendary ARM ope... More

Here are the complete Beowulf Shaeffer stories including a brand new one. Science fiction.... More

No synopsis available. Copyright (c) 1997 by Larry Niven... More

A group of humans settle in The Smoke Ring, which was already home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall.... More

An immense gas cloud encircling a decaying neutron star has become home of men whose ancestors fled totalitarian Earth 500 years before. Men live on gigantic tree-like plants floating in the cloud and survival depends on migration along their dying tree.... More

Collection of science fiction short stories.... More

Invasion seemed like a good idea at the time, but the catlike Kzin should have been polite to those apes from Earth. Humans know that there's more than one way to skin a cat -- even a Kzin.... More

I was watching the news when the change came, like a flicker of motion at the corner of my eye. I turned towards the balcony window. Whatever it was, I was too late to catch it.The moon was very bright tonight. I saw that, and smiled, and turned back. Johnny Carson was just starting his monologue.... More

The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans--it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow-- under a ruthless dictatorship... More

Nothing quite prepared telepath Larry Greenberg for mind-to-mind contact with an alien. Larry tapped the mind of Kzanol and that was his first mistake!... More

THE MISSION OF PHSSTHPOK Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before... Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, so... More

Sequel to Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers. Something is wrong with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed, vampires are massing, and worse. A lot can happen on a world with a surface area millions of times that of the Earth...and it does. But how do ghouls and vampires get t... More

In the introduction, Jerry Pournelle writes "Niven wrote hard science when it wasn't fashionable." And he wrote it as well is it can be written. Spanning his career and crossing the universe. You get a good sampling of his work. There are a couple of Man-Kzin stories, several from his Known Space un... More

[from the back cover] RETURN TO THE RINGWORLD It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his ... More

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, whe... More

Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.... More

3 novellas from the science fiction writer: Death by Ecstasy, The Defenseless Dead, and Arm.... More

Sequel to The Integral Trees.... More

The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the t... More

An inter-generational starship goes off course and must find a way to replenish their anti-matter if they are ever going to get to their destination. Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper deliver a fast-paced story about the virtual slave labor of children that is used to create the anti-matter factory. ... More

Exciting sequel to Dream Park.... More

A lucid narration of a novel telling the tale of an alien incursion to Earth.... More

Humans meet aliens for the first time.... More