"The Prisoner" Revisited

An essay on "The Prisioner", Originally published in Reason magazine, July 1987.

An Hour with Larry Niven

An interview, conducted in January 1979, between David Gerrold and Larry Niven.. Larry talks with David Gerrold about a wide range of subjects, including the inspirations behind several of his stories, including Neutron Star, Flash Crowd, and the Ringworld series...

The Notebooks of Mack Sikes

Larry Niven sent the following ms. with a note which reads (partially): ‘I enclose a gift. “The Notebooks of Mack Sikes” appeared in the SFWA FORUM but has since been revised. ...

Next Time

... a 100-word "drabble" for The Drabble Project

The Roentgen Standard

Larry solves the problems of Economic Malaise and Nuclear waste in one modest proposal.

The Color of Sunfire

An "obsolete" Known Space story, which has been superseded by other Known Space stories and novels, however it shows the origins of many ideas seen in later works.

THE PASTEL TERROR

An outline for a STAR TREK plot reprinted from Apa-L. "I dreamed this up years ago, during STAR TREK's second or third season.  I never tried to sell it, for reasons which will probably become clear as you read on."

Cloak of Anarchy

Anything goes in a free park, and I mean *anything*, with the exception of violent acts. But what happens when the copseyes fall out of the sky simultaneously? Ron Cole learns the hard way that his theories about anarchistic governments are wrong.

Words in Science Fiction

This article originally published back in 1974 explains how Larry came up with some of the fantastic names of his characters and their devices.

The Missing Mass

This is a recent Draco Tavern story which was recently published in the December 2000 issue of Analog Magazine.  "The Missing Mass" first appeared in Analog December 2000, vol. CXX no. 12 and except for electronic publications of that magazine, is published here with permission for the second time.  

Smut Talk

Another Draco Tavern story.  "Smut Talk" was first published in Playboy, January 2000, vol. 47 no 1, and except for foreign language editions of that magazine, is published with permission here for the second time.  A discussion about sex practices starting with the black-widow reflex of the Grey Mourners, and some of the perversions of human sexual acts with his flu-addled brain Rick Schuuman can think of better places to be.

Last Necronomicon, The

"The Last Necronomicon," was first published in the fanzines APA-L#315, and IS #4 which was published in October, 1971, one year after the publication of RINGWORLD.  Readership must have been light, and this, its third publication, is the first opportunity most fans have had to read it.

Down in Flames

(The unpublished novel plot) Larry's friends suggested that known space was getting a bit stale and together they worked out the plot for this unpublished novel.  Why ???- Larry got Dyson Spheres into his head and came up with Ringworld instead. 

Man of Steel Woman of Kleenex

Spoof  on the physics of a Superman. This short story was first published in 1971 in All the Myriad Ways, and reprinted in 1990's N-Space

Known Space Lightbulb Jokes

"How many Puppeteers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
"None. They hire Beowulf Shaeffer to to it. Lightbulbs can be dangerous" and many others......

Niven's Laws 2002

Niven's Laws was originally published by Owlswick Press for the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society in 1984, and was later reproduced in N-Space, the latest edition (2002) is published here after featuring in Analog (November 2002 edition).

In the Cellar

This story was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in February 1979 (vol 3 no 2, whole no. 12) and is published here, with permission, for the first time since then.

Albacon Trip Report

This is a trip report, not final draft, for Albacon, written three weeks after the World Trade Center disaster.  It is hoped that it will be published in a forthcoming volume of short stories and articles to be entitled SCATTERBRAIN 2.  Which will be similar to the previously published N-Space and Playgrounds of the Mind