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
I'd like to see superconductors get cheaper and closer to ambient temperature. There are engineering games you could play with that.
Ethics change with technology.
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
Never tell a computer to forget it.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
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.