Niven's Laws

Overview:

• Title: Niven's Laws
• Author: Larry Niven
• Year: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0913896241
• Publisher: Owlswick Press / PSFS
• Price: $12.00
• Pages: vii+108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Real Thing
• Notes:
  • Cover art credit from The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (Electronic Edition, 1999, page 493) and from Catalog of Copyright entry below.
  • 1,200 copies according to The Science-Fantasy Publishers by Chalker & Owings (Electronic Edition, 1999, page 493).
  • Issued without dustjacket.
  • Price from Locus1. No price printed on book.
  • Published for PhilCon 1984 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 16 - November 18, 1984).
    Publication date from convention date.
    Catalog of Copyright entry TX0001571331 puts the publication date at 1984-11-16.
  • No BLIC.
  • LCCN from LOC lookup.
  • For several of the entries, the titles in the Table of Contents on page vii differ from their titles at the start of the entry:
    • 1 Introduction (omits ": Larry Niven by Jerry Pournelle")
    • 9 Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing (omits exclamation mark)
    • 24 Green Marauder (omits "The")
    • 81 If Idi Amin Had Had the Bomb (omits ellipsis)
    • 84 The Roentgen Standard (omits "Yet Another Modest Proposal:")
    • 89 Why Men Fight Wars and What You Can Do About It (omits comma and exclamation mark)
  • The poem on page 87 is preceded by a short introduction titled "In Memoriam ..."