Opus No. Titlesort ascending Date Setting Publication type I.U.C. Notes
Review of Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling May, 1978 Review
Review of Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett August, 1990 N/A Review book review
Review of Contact August, 1986 N/A Review Review of Carl Sagan's Contact
Review of "Cosmic Time Travel: A Scientific Odyssey," by Barry Parker January, 1992 N/A Review book review
176 Return of William Proxmire, The January, 1989 Time Travel/Parallel Universe Short Story Shown to Robert Heinlein a few weeks before his death
121 Retrospective January, 1980 Dream Park Short Story Collaboration, co-written with Steven Barnes. Niven and his collaborator Steven Barnes reflect on the creation of Dream Park
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.
15 Relic of the Empire, A December, 1966 Known Space Short Story K.S. 23 (2645) First story that ties the world of Luke Garner to the world of Beowulf Shaeffer.  
Regulating the Body Business March, 1996 N/A Non-Fiction Discussion of organlegging, a sci-fi crime gone real-world.
137 Reflex January, 1983 Motie Novella Collaboration, co-written with Jerry Pournelle. This is the space battle that was excised from the beginning of Mote in God's Eye, The  
Reference Director Speaks, The March, 1999 Svetz Introduction Notes on the various Martian references contained in Rainbow Mars, along with a helpful timeline
Red Tide January, 2014 Flash Crowd/Teleportation Collection This anthology, part of the Stellar Guild series (edited by Mike Resnick), includes three new stories and an expanded version of the Niven classic Flash Crowd Red Tide Dial At Random
Red Tide January, 2014 Flash Crowd/Teleportation Novella As teleportation replaces cars and planes, Niven explores both the obvious and unintended consequences of cheap, instantaneous travel/?q=bibliographic-reference/flash-crowd
62 Recipes January, 1973 N/A Non-Fiction From Amazon.com: "Anne McCaffrey's cookbook, featuring real (you can cook them) recipes created by science fiction and fantasy writers such as Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avram Davidson and of course Anne McCaffrey herself. Mixed in with the recipes are stories and anecdotes about how they were created - some longer than the recipes!" This classic from 1973 was revised and re-released by Wildside Press in 1992. The included Niven recipes (irish coffee and others) seem to be intended for a bartender rather than a chef, but then that's the role Niven often finds himself performing at conventions.
123 Real Thing, The January, 1981 Draco Tavern Short Story D.T. 06 Draco Tavern: Rick goes sun-diving via virtual reality
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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