| Opus No. | Title | Date | Setting |
Publication type |
I.U.C. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dramatis Personae | August, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Who's Who in Niven's career | ||
| Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind | August, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Introduction to N-Space | ||
| Blowing Smoke | August, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | A description and discussion of the Smoke Ring's origins, parameters and environment. | ||
| 191 | Space | August, 1990 | N/A | Non-Fiction | essay on the Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. Includes some text from their report, "How to Save Civilization and Make a Little Money," not to be confused with the essay in Scatterbrain of the same name. | |
| Tabletop Fusion | November, 1993 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Article about tabletop fusion | ||
| Intercon Trip Report: August 12, 1991 | November, 1993 | The Ghetto | Non-Fiction | Like the title says | ||
| Bibliography | November, 1993 | N/A | Non-Fiction | This is the most recent source of the "opus numbers" found in this database. It's an updated version of the bibliography found in N-Space | ||
| Thraxisp: A Memoir | October, 1991 | The Ghetto | Non-Fiction | Essay on Joel Hagen's world-building project | ||
| 183 | Lost Ideas, The | October, 1991 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Like the title says | |
| 184 | Ghetto? But I Thought... | October, 1991 | The Ghetto | Non-Fiction | Essay on the "Science Fiction Ghetto." Includes the text of "Convention Stories" from Niven's Laws | |
| 185 | Adrienne and Irish Coffee | October, 1991 | The Ghetto | Non-Fiction | Like the title says | |
| 187 | Trantorcon Report | October, 1991 | The Ghetto | Non-Fiction | Guide to the ultimate Sci-fi convention in 23,309. A version of this appeared in APA-L #500, Dec. 11, 1974, and later reprinted in a fanzine by Marty Cantor called No Award, with cartoons by William Rotsler and others. | |
| 188 | Comics | October, 1991 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Essay on Niven's relationship with comics and the comics industry | |
| 189 | From the Green Lantern Bible | October, 1991 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Excerpts from the Green Lantern "Bible" Niven worked up for DC Comics. Some of the results of this effort can be seen in Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale | |
| Works in Progress | October, 1991 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Discussion of works in progress as of the publication of Playgrounds of the Mind | ||
| Where Next, Columbus? | January, 1992 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Collaboration, co-written with Jerry Pournelle | ||
| Regulating the Body Business | March, 1996 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Discussion of organlegging, a sci-fi crime gone real-world. | ||
| Catfish and Red Meat Flavoring | October, 1996 | Non-Fiction | more recipes | |||
| Timeline for Known Space | November, 1996 | Known Space: About | Non-Fiction | Updated from the version that originally appeared in Tales of Known Space | ||
| Afterthoughts | November, 1996 | N/A | Non-Fiction | Like the title says: Afterthoughts on the growth of Known Space, looking back 30 years later. |