Bøker av Larry Niven

Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden Age

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novelFour travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world.Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy.Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?

Aliens - Moties - were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet.

Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is takenΓÇöonly blood. It''s the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it''s part of a wider plot to weaken the United States by depriving it of its blood supply. But the truth is much more sinister. The four robbers are vampires: immortal, physically powerful, and after decades of honing their skills, practically untraceable. But time goes on and the vampiresΓÇöwho call themselves The VainΓÇöstay the same in a world that is rapidly changing around them. As security measures evolve, stealing blood is harder every day. And with every decade that passes, Agent Franklin gets closer to finding them. Capturing them. Ending them.

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes: this powerhouse trio of science fiction greats unites to further explore the island paradise of Camelot from their classic novel, Legacy of Herorot. A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.

Galaxy's Edge has been publishing outstanding science fiction and fantasy fiction since its inaugural issue in March 2013. The magazine's authors include seasoned veterans as well as exciting new talent from across the globe.Whether its dragons or spaceships, magic or hard science, there is only one criterion to be published in Galaxy's Edge: it has to be a great story.As with the last edition of the Best of, all the fiction pieces in this volume have been personally selected by the editor, Mike Resnick. These stories appeared in issues of the magazine that were published between 2015 and 2017, and include new titles by bestselling authors like Larry Niven and David Gerrold, as well as exhilarating new writers like Marina J. Lostetter and Martin L. Shoemaker.And also, like with our previous Best of anthology, our authors all share one thing in common. They write engaging stories that will entertain you, leave you astonished, and make you think-the hallmarks of all good science fiction and fantasy.Contributors:Larry NivenStewart C BakerAlvaro Zinos-AmaroAuston HabershawLaurie TomAlex ShvartsmanSandra M. OdellEric Leif DavinTom GerencerDantzel CherryRon CollinsMarina J. LostetterLeena LikitaloTina GowerEric ClineEffie SeibergSunil PatelRobert JeschonekJennifer Campbell-HicksSylvia Spruck WrigleyMartin L. ShoemakerDavid Gerrold

In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city. But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence.

A classic novel of known spacePhssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before . . .Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days-Brennan figured to meet that ship first . . .He was never seen again-at least not by those alive at the time.

Darrell Schweitzer interviews: Vernor Vinge, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Fillippo, Tanith Lee, Patricia Mckillip, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele, John Clute, Elizabeth Hand, Maurice Broaddus, James P. Blaylock, Theodora Goss, Ben Bova, Richard A. Lupoff, Jay Lake, William Tenn (Philip Klass), Kim Stanley Robinson, Stanley Schmidt, and Larry Niven

The stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel Ringworld

A major SF event: Larry Niven continues the classic Ringworld series.