| Opus No. | Title | Date |
Setting |
Publication type | I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hooking the Reader | August, 2010 | The Ghetto | Essay | Niven writes briefly on how he has grown as a writer over the years. "I think I'm getting better at this," he winks. | ||
| 95 | World Out Of Time, A | December, 1976 | The Stat | Novel | "Fix-up" novel made up of: Rammer Children of the State Down and Out | |
| 51 | Rammer | November, 1971 | The State | Short Story | Chapter 1 of World Out Of Time, A | |
| 92 | Down and Out | February, 1976 | The State | Short Story | Included in the novel World Out Of Time, A | |
| 96 | Children of the State | September, 1976 | The State | Serial | Serial that became A World Out Of Time, along with: Down and Out Rammer | |
| 140 | Integral Trees, The | October, 1983 | The State: The Smoke Ring | Novel | first Smoke Ring novel. See the sequel, Smoke Ring, The | |
| 158 | Smoke Ring, The | January, 1987 | The State: The Smoke Ring | Novel | sequel to Integral Trees, The | |
| Ghost Ships, The | January, 1990 | The State: The Smoke Ring | Novel | rejected sequel to The Smoke Ring... novel of strange supernova-born life-forms | ||
| 190 | Kiteman, The | August, 1990 | The State: The Smoke Ring | Short Story | short story set in the Smoke Ring | |
| Integral Trees, The (Omnibus) | August, 2003 | The State: The Smoke Ring | Short Story | Omnibus of two novels: Integral Trees, The Smoke Ring, The | ||
| 36 | All the Myriad Ways | October, 1968 | Time Travel/Parallel Universe | Short Story | Niven's take on divergent timelines | |
| 102 | Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation | August, 1977 | Time Travel/Parallel Universe | Short Story | Title stolen from a mathematics paper by Frank J. Tipler | |
| 176 | Return of William Proxmire, The | January, 1989 | Time Travel/Parallel Universe | Short Story | Shown to Robert Heinlein a few weeks before his death | |
| Ice and Mirrors | February, 2001 | Walker & Keenan | Short Story | Collaboration, co-written with Brenda Cooper | ||
| Free Floaters | August, 2002 | Walker & Keenan | Novella | Collaboration, co-written with Brenda Cooper. Sequel to Ice and Mirrors |