Bibliography
Compiled by David Lambert and Carol Phillips
| Opus No. | Title |
Date |
Setting | Publication type | I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memoir | September, 1986 | Non-Fiction | Niven describes his relationship with the editor of If, Frederik Pohl, and the writing of the award-winning Neutron Star | |||
| Bulletin Symposium: What Should Science Fiction Be? | January, 1987 | N/A | Non-Fiction | |||
| 169 | Prisoner Revisited, The | July, 1987 | N/A | Review | Read It Here! An article on the '60s TV show and the impact it had on Niven and other LASFS members. | |
| Introduction to Man-Kzin Wars I | January, 1988 | Known Space: About | Introduction | Like the title says | ||
| 165 | Next Time | January, 1988 | Stand Alone | Short Story | Read It Here! a 100-word "drabble" for The Drabble Project | |
| 170 | Horror Stories for Bright People | February, 1988 | N/A | Review | Review of Greg Benford's In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, and Great Sky River | |
| Sideways in Time, an introduction to Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee | May, 1988 | N/A | Introduction | An essay about alternate history stories, published as an introduction to Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore, for a "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" limited-edition leatherbound reprint of the 1955 classic, featuring art by A.C. Farley. | ||
| Read This | September, 1988 | Essay | Reviews of (nonfiction): Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking Infinite in All Directions, by Freeman Dyson Mirror Matter, by Robert L. Forward and Joel Davis and (fiction) Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. | |||
| Bulletin Symposium: The Worst Mistake You Ever Made | January, 1989 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Article about why Niven considers "The Ethics of Madness" a failed story. | ||
| Ringworld Retrospective | April, 1989 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Like the title says. A look back at the impact of Ringworld. | ||
| Read This | May, 1989 | N/A | Essay | Review of Deep Time: The Journey of a Single Sub-Atomic Particle from the Moment of Creation to the Death of the Universe--and Beyond, by David Darlin | ||
| 175 | Man-Kzin Wars II | August, 1989 | Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars | Anthology | Anthology edited by Larry Niven and James Baen, with a new introduction by Niven | |
| Response to "The New Generation Gap" | September, 1989 | N/A | Essay | Invited response to "The New Generation Gap: A Study of SF Writers' Ages of Professional Entry into the Science Fiction Field for Six Decades of SF", by Kathryn Cramer, which was published in The New York Review of Science Fiction #11, July 1989. Appears alongside essays on "The New Generation Gap" by Clarke, Delaney, Dickson, Leiber, Brin and others. | ||
| Read This | November, 1989 | N/A | Essay | Review of The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson | ||
| Blind Alleys | April, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Article about "a handful of mistakes" that writers have made, which "stupid people would never think of." | ||
| Blowing Smoke | August, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | A description and discussion of the Smoke Ring's origins, parameters and environment. | ||
| Bibliography | August, 1990 | N/A | Short Story | bibliography, updated in Bridging the Galaxies | ||
| Review of Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | August, 1990 | N/A | Review | book review | ||
| N-Space | August, 1990 | N/A | Collection | Major retrospective of Niven's career from 1964-1990. Contents: Introduction: "The Maker of Worlds" by Tom Clancy On Niven excerpt from World of Ptavvs excerpt from A Gift from Earth excerpt from Ringworld "The Fourth Profession" excerpt from Protector excerpt from The Mote in God's Eye, with Jerry Pournelle Dramatis Personae Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind Bordered in Black Long Night, The All the Myriad Ways For a Foggy Night Meddler, The Passerby Down in Flames Fourth Profession, The Shall We Indulge in Rishathra? Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex Inconstant Moon What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? Cloak of Anarchy Hole Man, The Night on Mispec Moor Flare Time Locusts, The Building the Mote in God's Eye Brenda Return of William Proxmire, The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters, The Madness Has Its Place Niven's Laws Blowing Smoke Kiteman, The Alien in our Minds, The Space Bibliography | ||
| My Favorite Story | October, 1990 | N/A | Essay | Article about writing Inconstant Moon |