Books by Larry Niven

Destiny's Road (1998)
On Planet Destiny, Jemmy Blocher kills a laborer and flees for his life along the long road forged b...

The Ringworld Engineers (1981)
When Louis Wu returns to Ringworld as a captive of the Hindmost, he discovers the world is no longer...

Lucifer's Hammer (1983)
Records the reactions of people awaiting a comet which they fear will crack the earth and cause a ne...

The Mote in God's Eye (1991)
The accidental killing of a group of emissaries to Earth threatens man's survival...

Ringworld (1970)
A two-headed creature and a large redfurred carnivore are among the members of a party which arrives...

Playgrounds of the Mind (1992)
Presents a collection of stories from the second half of Niven's writing career, many previously unp...

Stars and Gods (2010)
Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic science fiction novels as Ringw...

The Goliath Stone (2013)
Using nanotechnology to enable miracle health cures and promote unprecedented levels of global wealt...

Juggler of Worlds (2008)
In a tale set two centuries before the discovery of the Ringworld, covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller pr...

Building Harlequin's Moon (2005)
When the terraforming crew of the interstellar starship John Glenn accidentally lands on the giant g...

Protector (1973)
Physsthpok, a member of the Pak race of aliens, sets out to find a lost group of Breeders sent into ...

Limits (1985)
Stories deal with alien observers, Atlantis, etiquette with extraterrestrials, ruthless killing mach...

Dream Park (1986)
A deadly murderer adds real danger to the simulated challenges of a computerized fantasy world...

Fleet of Worlds (2007)
When a chain reaction of supernovae explosions at the core of the galaxy unleashes a deadly wave of ...

The Smoke Ring (1988)
The Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers and learn for the first time of a society known ...

The Gripping Hand (1994)
A quarter century after humanity quarantines the aliens known as Moties within the confines of their...

Beowulf's Children (1996)
On Tau Ceti Four, the descendants of the original two hundred colonists fight to keep control of a l...

Three Books of Known Space (1996)
Two science fiction novels and a collection of short stories feature a being intent upon enslaving E...

Fallen Angels (2002)
Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon...

Escape from Hell (2009)
Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortur...

Achilles' Choice (1991)
The gods of Olympus offer Achilles a choice between a short, glorious life or a long, dull one, and ...

The Ringworld Throne (1997)
Each race of the Ringworld has always had its own Protector, but when something goes wrong and every...

Ringworld's Children (2004)
When a powerful new weapon threatens the spherical planet of Ringworld, a protector, an exile with t...