- Larry Niven
- Is by the Muses driven;
- Approaching sixty five
- They still appear to be well alive.
- Niven, Laurence Van Cott,
- Writes science fiction, a lot.
- Now, 5 and 3 score,
- Not retiring, he's promised us more.
wussup dude happy birthday u rule man keep it up and remember to always to have confidence in yourself and never give u
Larry, happy birthday and thanks for producing a great playground.
David
Happy Birthday, Larry!
Your novels formed an integral part of my psychological enrichment
both as a teenager and as an adult, and I still intend to read all
the novels by you which I haven't read yet. The last one I read
was "Rainbow Mars". My favourites were "Ringworld"
and its sequels, the "Neutron Star" collection of shortstories,
as well as one of the Man-Kzinti novels I read (can't remember which).
I have one question I'd like to pose to you, and would be delighted
(I'm 25) to get an answer. Are you going to go for cryonics? http://www.cryonics.org/
Happy Birthday, Larry!
We in Italy say "Hundred of these days", Are they enough for you?
Happy Birthday, Larry!
happy birthday cool books
Many happy returns for your 65th birthday and thanks for all those great, mind expanding pieces of fiction. Keep it up.
love your books, happy birthday
Roermond, the netherlands
Happy Birthday Mr Niven
I hope you hang in there for more than a few more years so I can
read some of your up coming works. I'm eagerly awaiting "Ringworlds
Children" in the hope that you'll explain how Pak Protectors
could have developed a society that would be capable of building
a structure as grand as the Ringworld when they are so intrasigent
that they couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
"Man Kizin Wars XI" is slated to have a story that addresses
the reclaimation of home after Brennam and Truesdale transformed
the colony into Protectors. This should prove fascinating to me.
A possible sequel to "Inferno" offers some interesting
possibillities. Former President Bill Clinton would make an obvious
subject for punishment. My idea is that he is tormented by an infinately
long line of well endowed demons who taunt him with the assurance,
"Don't feel guilty Bill, it really isn't adultury as long as
you're just performing oral sex."
I also celebrate a birthday on April 30th. I will be 39. HAPPY B-Day
Larry! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Hi Larry; Happy birthday!
I lost your card with your telephone number and e-mail. I don't
have an E-mail. my address is
Thanks Love your Gray!
Thanks for giving me a reason to read. !! Best wishes.
Be young Have fun and Keep Writing...
Howard.
Happy Birthday Larry!
I am really looking forward to read more books written by you (Ringworld
brought me really into Science Fiction last summer - I purchased the
whole trilogy, the crashlander stories and Man-Kzin-wars I-VIII. I'm
awaiting the german release of MKW IX, which is scheduled for july)
yours sincerely
a german fan
I bought my first Niven novel (Lucifer's Hammer) at Detroit Metro
Airport, before a winter vacation, in 1987. I sat by the ocean and
read the book in less than two days. I have been a huge fan ever since.
Please keep up the good work for many years to come.
Sean
Clarkston, MI
Happy Birthday !! I've been reading your books sence 1975. Sorry
to hear about the Smoke Ring. I was looking forward to more books.
Sincerely Chris.
Love Known Space, loved the Barsoom Project, inspiration to "francise
out" the Man-Kzin wars. Have a Happy Birthday and keep writing.
Regards
Mike Brown
Happy Birthday and Best wishes
Happy Birthday and think you for the gifts of worlds and ideas you've given us everyday of the year.
Thanks for being part of OUR world!!
Larry: Thanks for the many, many hours of reading rapture you have provided.
Happy Birthday
Ray Segura
New Orleans, LA
Buon compleanno Larry !!!!
Happy Birthday from Cagliari, Sardiania Island, Italy !!!!!!
Ciao !!!
Raffaele.
Happy Birthday Larry. Thanks for the amazing trips to new worlds
over the years. I have been a fan all my life and I look forward to
many more years of great books. Thanks Larry,
Jamie
Dear Larry,
You grabbed me 25 years ago as a 10 year old with Gil Hamilton's
stories- and never let go...
Congrats and, I hope, lots of writing!
Jorg Nielsen
The Netherlands
Happy 65th. You're the absolute best.
BTW I used to think Scream and Leap was supposed to be the Japanese
with all the Bushido mixed into the Kzinti but if you weren't thinking
of the Arabs you shoulda been.
your first shipment of booster spice will be delivered to you at
worldcon 2003 in toronto after i get my copies of ringworld an flight
of the horse signed. many happy returns, to my favourite living
sf writer. although rah is not that far ahead of you sir
pleast excuse the lack of capitals and a proper at symbol in my
email the shift key on this key board is broken.
May yu live to write enchantng stories for another 100 years ;-)
Happy Birthday Larry!
I love and read almost all your books.
Boy, what an imagination!
11/feb/1987 [????? - Nesssus ;-)]
Congrats! Best Wishes! I will eat a piece of cookie cake in your honor.. :)
Happy birthday to one of the best writers living on the planet.
I have read many of your books multiple times. Thanks for all the
joy you have bought to me and the millions of other readers on the planet
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a party and eat some cake, but more
then that I hope you write ten more books this year, hehe. Just reread
the Ringworld trilogy again for the millionth time, and now I'm deciding
whether to reread Rainbow Mars or move on to some Sam Delany Dhalgren
action. Decisions, decisions. Enough babbling. Happy B'day man!
many happy returns, i hope your day is as pleasureable as a day under the tasp
Happy Birthday Mr Niven
I just wanted to thank you for writing such a wonderful book. I'm
readying Donkey Gospel in my Senior English class and from reading
your book, its made me want to read more poems
thank you
tom brownlie
Happy Birthday and many more to you!
Quid pro quo...pick any of my upcoming birthdays to present me with
a new Known Space story. We can share with everyone else too!
Steve
Happy birthday! Thank you for writing all those great books.
You're the greatest Sci-Fi author I've read, and i have read all
o the classics. I sure love your stories, not only your nebula award
winner Ring World, but all of your work. I wish you the best, and
thank you for sharing your literature with us all.
Happy birthday Larry!
Don't even THINK about retiring now..
.
Oh yeah, thanks for all the hours of enjoyment over the years (I
just reread Jigsaw Man in the Dangerous Visions 35th Anniversary
Edition the other day and it still gives me the creeps!)
Hi Larry. Just want to drop a short message and says that your stories
have really opened up a universe of possibilities in my mind, showing
me places that I can't see while being stuck on Earth like this ...
May you produce more good stories for us all ...
I "discovered" your work back in the mid-seventies. After
about 30 years of reading it, I still look forward to a new story
from you. Thanks for a lot of wonderful stories. Best wishes on your birthday!
Sam
I bow to thee for thou art the master.Happy Birthday
and thank you for all the people and places you have shown me.
Happy Birthday Larry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ And may it be your day
Happy birthday, and thanks for the brain-opening books!
Larry, Thankyou for all the pleasure that your books have given
me and mine in Australia. I hope that you have a wonderful birthday
and I wish you all that you may wish yourself and many more to come.
Happy Birthday Larry!
I think I saw Nabil at a Starbucks here in Cupertino, he said he was
shopping for some coffee for you from Mr. Bury, as a birthday gift.
He looked pretty disappointed when I told him they don't sell Jamacian
Blue Mountain here!
Cheers!
T.
Happy Birthday!
Keep on writing, I love your stories.
Tom Garby
Happy 65th Mr. Niven.
I've been reading your books for what must be 20 years now and
own most of what you've written novel and short story wise. I hope
you keep writing for many more years, (though you should have a
rest now n then !:)
Looking forward to a Ringworld movie and any more Known Space /
Smokering / State novels !
Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday larry, and may you have many many more. I need more
to read.. :) Looking forward to ringworlds children.
Thanks for your material. I read your short stories over and over,
always discovering new insights and tidbits. Now that you are 65 I
suspect you may be inclined to retire, however we can't allow that.
Write! You must write! Write more!
Kind regards,
Chris Wilhelm
Ketchikan, Alaska
"Raven's Brew Coffee"
Happy, happy birthday Mr. Niven.
Christopher Johnson Gieseke
Feliz cumpleaños Sr. Niven.
:-)
Happy birthday, Larry. Please keep us entertained and stimulated
by your writing for many more years to come.
Love,
Eleanor
Dear Larry,
I have read and LOVED your work for most of my life. Sometimes
I dream I'm on a Ringworld... those are good dreams, and I wouldn't
have them without you and your wonderful books.
Happy Birthday, and Thank You!
May you go on forever, happily living, happily writing.
Larry, I first met you at WesterCon XXX in Vancouver, B.C. in 1977,
when Damon Knight was GoH. I want to wish you the best: I read "Mote"
while in line and between sections of writing my LSAT (a sort of voodoo
test to determine who will do well at law school). After graduating
from Dalhousie, I've been practicing law for a dozen years (the last
four in my own firm). So where do I send your share? Now that your
knee has healed, I hope Sable is keeping you and Jerry in good shape.
May you live long enough to get boosterspice. All best.
Happy Birthday Larry! I've spent a good deal this spring reading
some of your books...Mote in God's Eye, CrashLander and soon, The
Ringworld Throne. Congratulations on your long and highly successful
career in sci-fi, and thanks for inspiring us all with your words and vision!
Happy Birthday Larry!!
Thank you for being you!!
Mr. Niven,
Happy 65th Birthday! I wish you many more happy, productive years.
Timothy Moore
Happy Birthday, Larry!
You're a brilliant writer and a trully imaginative mind.
I've witnessed many novels come alive in the screen, but I'm certainly
hoping I'm gonna see one of yours (Ringworld, maybe) in the near future,
now that serious special effects may do great SF and fantasy novels
some real justice.
And I hope You'll see them soon too!
:)
Happy birthday Larry, thanks for a life-time of great fiction.
Hi Larry, thanks for all the stories - they've been a pleasure to
read :) hope you have many more years to come!
Hi,
First of all, many happy returns of the day. You have greatly enhanced
my ideas of the (possible) universe with your \
A very happy birthday, Larry! I have loved your work since I first
read Ringworld back in 1980. Your attention to the details of your
universe and the believability of your characters makes your work
the most compelling and entertaining I have ever read. For as long
as I have been reading science fiction, you have been my favorite
author. Thank you for so many years of thought-provoking insight and
enjoyment, and here\'s looking forward to many more!
The best of wishes to you on this (day of joy?)
You know that wisdom comes with age. It\'s a shame that we all
have to grow so old before we realize that fact. _most of us anyway.
There are some that are granted deeper insight before the years
wane too far. I think that perhaps you are one of the chosen.
...but what would I know? I\'m still a puppy. ;)
Happy Birthday Larry!
Congratulations!!! And come on down to New Zealand some time - you
are, after all read all over the world you know!!!
Cheers
Dear Larry,
Many happy returns. More years ago than I - and probably you- care
to remember I blew a week's pocket money on a copy of World of Ptavvs.
Been a fan ever since. Have a great birthday.
Jim Braiden
Many happy returns!!
I love your stuff ( Well, most of it, anyway!)Admonitions:
1) Inconstant Moon. If the moon sets at 2 in the morning, it could
only be about a Quarter, never full!
2) Gavving or his Clan should have been smart enough to have their
own wings, without waiting for The Smoke Ring, especially with all
the recorded stuff in the scientists reader!.
Waiting for the new stories, and specific instructions for rishatra
with whales or honey bees!
All the best
Pablo
Larry,
Happy Birthday! Best Wishes for Many More!
This is my first time to your site, and I'm glad I came in time
to send this greeting. I've been reading your stuff for thirty years,
and you've spun some good times and thoughtful interludes. Thanks
for the worlds, characters and stories.
Mike
the teela gene must cause some lucky effects to affect our univers
from the future, so one of her descendants must have stood to benefit
from her death
Happy Happy Birthday from Germany. I read Your Books when I was
15, now I´m 40 and still reading again Your Stories. Thank You so much !
Kai Sender, Bremen, Germany
Probably the first greeting from Bosnia.
All the best!
ps. After reading ur page, I decided to postpone start of reading
third ringworld book to april 30th :)
Have a very happy birthday Larry - a greatful fan from Scotland.
Happy Birthday. Time is the only thing that travels. May your travel
be enjoyable. Not a koan, but a kohen!
Happy Birthday to Larry Niven, and good health for a long voyage in
the Known Space.
Happy birthday!
I just started reading your books. I enjoyed The Mote in God's
Eye and the Gripping Hand, as well as the Ringworld books and the Draco Tavern stories.
The very happiest of birthdays to you, and a big dose of boosterspice, too.
Happy BIrthday Larry.
By the way; What ever happened to Louis Wu's sister?
Frank Gasperik
Happy Birthday Larry.
Just 'cause you're 65 doesn't mean we're going to let you retire! :)
Happy Birthhday, Larry!
I hope the social security people are friendlier than the DMV... ;-)
Happy birthday mr Niven!
I thank you for all the joy you've given me with your books and I'll
hope you'll continue to do so in the future, in good health and happiness.
Happy 65th Larry, and thank you for all you've written!!!
Happy birthday Larry.
Looking forward to Purgatorio.
Will there be a Paradiso I wonder - perhaps on ringworld after the
core explosion wavefront passes?
happy b'day . . . many happy returns of the day
Happy Birthday Larry,
long may the gripping hand continue to feed our addiction :-)
All the best,
Nick