Opus No. Title Date Setting Publication typesort ascending I.U.C. Notes
139 Teardrop Falls, A June, 1983 Berserker Short Story Set in Fred Saberhagen's berserker universe
147 If Idi Amin Had Had The Bomb December, 1984 Short Story essay on modern warfare
142 Table Manners December, 1984 N/A Short Story D.T. 09
161 Dreadful White Page, The January, 1988 Stand Alone Short Story "Postcard Story"
164 Curse January, 1988 Stand Alone Short Story No other data. In late 2011 Tim Kyger asked Niven for a glimpse of the story. Niven looked for it, couldn't find it, wound up asking Tim to pass it along if HE ever came across it!
165 Next Time January, 1988 Stand Alone Short Story Read It Here! a 100-word "drabble" for The Drabble Project
160 Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters, The July, 1988 Stand Alone Short Story A tale of Scherezade, based on the classic Arabian Nights
174 Criticism January, 1989 The Ghetto Short Story essay on critics and criticism
176 Return of William Proxmire, The January, 1989 Time Travel/Parallel Universe Short Story Shown to Robert Heinlein a few weeks before his death
167 Wishing Game, The June, 1989 Magic Universe: Warlock Short Story W. 05 final tale of the Warlock's companions
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).
Avogadro's World January, 1990 Stand Alone Short Story Collaboration with Jerry Pournelle and Wendy All, never completed.
Mom and the Kids March, 1990 The Fleet Short Story Collaboration, co-written with David Drake
177 Madness Has Its Place August, 1990 Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars Short Story K.S. 19 (2375-83) First Known Space story since The Ringworld Engineers in 1979.  Describes Sol's first response to the Kzin invasion
190 Kiteman, The August, 1990 The State: The Smoke Ring Short Story short story set in the Smoke Ring
Bibliography August, 1990 N/A Short Story bibliography, updated in Bridging the Galaxies
180 Fallen Angels July, 1991 Stand Alone Short Story Collaboration, co-written with Jerry Pournelle & Michael Flynn excerpted in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, June 1991
It's Only a Story November, 1993 Stand Alone Short Story written for an anthology called The Midnight Miracle, edited by Jerry Biederman and Christopher Owens.
South Los Angeles Broadcasting System, The November, 1993 N/A Short Story a non-SF story set in the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
Color of Sunfire, The November, 1993 Known Space Short Story K.S. 33 (2686) Read It Here! Mention of an alien race called the Pleione description of Silvereyes (Beta Hydri I) description of the Puppeteer homeworld. We finally catch up to Richard Harvey Shultz-Mann, forty years after Relic of the Empire, A

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