Larry Niven

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Niven, Laurence Van Cott
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Date of Birth: April 30, 1938

Notes:

Attended the California Institute of Technology from 1956 to 1958. Received a B.A. in math from Washburn University in 1962.

Titles:

Anthologies

Chapter Books

Collections

Essays

Interviews

Novels

Omnibuses

Poems

Reviews

Serials

Short Fiction

Awards

  • 0000. Fallen Angels - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Nebula Award, Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Protector - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Integral Trees - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Convergent Series - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Win)
  • 0000. Inconstant Moon - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Borderland of Sol - Hugo Award, Best Novelette (Win)
  • 0000. The Hole Man - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. Neutron Star - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Missing Mass - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. Sacred Cow - Analog Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Magic May Return - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Legacy of Heorot - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. What Good Is a Glass Dagger? - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inferno - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. More Magic - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Spirals - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Bowl of Heaven - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Throne - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Destiny's Road - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Flight of the Horse - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. Shipstar - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Locus Online, 20th Century Science Fiction Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Descent of Anansi - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Locusts - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inferno - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Patchwork Girl - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. A Hole in Space - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Playgrounds of the Mind - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Jigsaw Man - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Locusts - Analog Award, Best Novella/Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Hole Man - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. All the Myriad Ways - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Gripping Hand^The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye (UK) - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Engineers - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inconstant Moon - Locus Online, 20th Century Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Neutron Star - Locus Online, 20th Century Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Engineers - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Engineers - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Protector - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Lucifer's Hammer - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Integral Trees - SF Chronicle Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inferno - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Footfall - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Magic Goes Away - Locus Poll Award, Best Art or Illustrated Book (Nomination)
  • 0000. Limits - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Fourth Profession - Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. ARM - Hugo Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Locusts - Hugo Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Borderland of Sol - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Not Long Before the End - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Not Long Before the End - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fly-By-Night - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Big Smart Objects - Analog Award, Best Fact Article (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Locus Online, 20th Century Science Fiction Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Protector - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inferno - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Footfall - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Dream Park - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Tales of Known Space - Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Man-Kzin Wars - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. Crashlander - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. N-Space - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Return of William Proxmire - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. A World Out of Time - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Integral Trees - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. ARM - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Rainbow Mars - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Man-Kzin Wars IV - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Defenseless Dead - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fly-By-Night - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ice and Mirrors - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Best of Larry Niven - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Smoke Ring - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Lucifer's Hammer - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. All the Myriad Ways - Locus Poll Award, Best Reprint Anthology/Collection (old) (Nomination)
  • 0000. Free Floaters - Asimov's Readers' Poll, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Magic Goes Away - Gandalf Award, Book-Length Fantasy (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. A World Out of Time - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Ringworld - Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Integral Trees - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inferno - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best International Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Magic Goes Away - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Wrong-Way Street - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Inconstant Moon - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Becalmed in Hell - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Flatlander - Nebula Award, Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Flare Time - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fleet of Worlds - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Throne - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, Bestes ausländisches Werk (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beowulf's Children - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, Bestes ausländisches Werk (Nomination)
  • 0000. Destiny's Road - Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, Bestes ausländisches Werk (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Mote in God's Eye - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. World of Ptavvs - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Bordered in Black - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Neutron Star - Nebula Award, Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Fallen Angels - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Oath of Fealty - Prometheus Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Ringworld Throne - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Beowulf's Children - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Gripping Hand^The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye (UK) - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)

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