Larry Niven
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven—known as Larry Niven—is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld, which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Larry Niven quotes about
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.