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
Anything that can go wrong, will
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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.
I don't have a strong interest in history.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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.
Any damn fool can predict the past.
Never fire a laser at a mirror.