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
Never tell a computer to forget it.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum
The majority is always sane.
Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.