Opus No. Titlesort descending Date Setting Publication type I.U.C. Notes
Pastel Terror, The August, 1971 Star Trek Script Read It Here! Outline for a Star Trek plot, never offered to the show.  The script also appeared in APA-L.
118 Patchwork Girl, The April, 1980 Known Space: Gil Hamilton Novella Gil goes to the moon. Illustrations by Fernando. Niven's published bibliographies list the publication year as 1978, while the Ace first edition says 1980
Playground Earth January, 2008 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 26 In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the Draco Tavern, Rick Schumann faces a planet that's suddenly anti-alien. But the aliens are here to stay...
178 Playgrounds of the Mind October, 1991 Collection Collection info Sequel/companion to N-Space. Contents: excerpt from Inferno with Jerry Pournelle excerpt from A World Out Of Time excerpt from "The Ethics of Madness" excerpt from Lucifer's Hammer with Jerry Pournelle excerpt from The Ringworld Engineers excerpt from The Magic Goes Away excerpt from The Patchwork Girl excerpt from Oath of Fealty, with Jerry Pournelle "Retrospective" with Steven Barnes, section from Dream Park excerpt from The Legacy of Heorot, with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes excerpt from Footfall, with Jerry Pournelle excerpt from The Gripping Hand, as The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye with Jerry Pournelle excerpt from Fallen Angels, with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn excerpt from The California Voodoo Game, with Steven Barnes, Thraxisp: A Memoir Teardrop Falls, A Rammer Becalmed in Hell Wait it Out Relic of the Empire, A Soft Weapon, The Borderland of Sol, The What Good is a Glass Dagger? Defenseless Dead, The Leviathan! Unfinished Story Cautionary Tales Dreadful White Page, The Green Marauder, The Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing! War Movie Limits Lost Ideas, The Bigger Than Worlds Ghetto? But I Thought... Adrienne and Irish Coffee One Night at the Draco Tavern Trantorcon Report Why Men Fight Wars and What You Can Do About It Comics Portrait of Daryanree the King, The Wishing Game, The Lion in his Attic, The From the Green Lantern Bible Wanted Fan Works in Progress Criticism  
Playhouse January, 2006 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 23 The Draco Tavern plays host to some exuberant alien children.
76 Plaything August, 1974 Stand Alone Short Story Alien adolescents encounter a probe from Earth
166 Portrait of Daryanree the King, The September, 1989 Magic Universe Short Story First American rights unsold. Sent to Argos. Argos collapsed. Antho rights promised to Susan Shwartz for Arabesques III. Sold to Titan Books (England).
Preface to Ringworld's Children August, 2004 Known Space: About Non-Fiction further discussion of Ringworld's literary and physical parameters
Preface: The Freedom of Choice September, 1979 N/A Introduction Preface to Jerry Pournelle's non-fiction collection A Step Farther Out
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.
Procrustes November, 1993 Known Space Novella K.S. 29 (2654) Beowulf loses his head, but takes it surprisingly well
63 Protector September, 1973 Known Space Novel K.S. 17 (2124 - 2341) Brand-new assumption introduced to Known Space: humanity is descended from the Pak. The novel 's second section is called "Vandervecken," and takes place in 2340. The first part is Adults, The
Rainbow Mars March, 1999 Svetz Collection New Svetz story and collection. Contents: Rainbow Mars Get a Horse! Bird in the Hand Leviathan! There's a Wolf in My Time Machine Death in a Cage Svetz and the Beanstalk
Rainbow Mars March, 1999 Svetz Novella New Svetz novella, set on the fantasy Mars of Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 Rammer November, 1971 The State Short Story Chapter 1 of World Out Of Time, A
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.
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
Read This November, 1989 N/A Essay Review of The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson
Read This September, 1991 N/A Essay Review of Red Orc's Rage, by Philip José Farmer
Read This October, 1992 N/A Review Review of Dinotopia, by James Gurney

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