Ringworld
Triology
Ringworld
Barclay
Shaw
|
Ringworld
Engineers
Barclay
Shaw
|
Ringworld
Throne
Barclay
Shaw
|
Ringworld's Children
Stephen Martiniere
|
Ringworld
Pierson's
puppeteers are an ancient, technologically advanced alien race. They
use
They broke off contact with humanity hundreds of years before, as they
began
their flight to escape the inevitable, but far in the future, death of
this
galaxy.
Now
a puppeteer has reappeared and invites our protagonist, Louis Wu, to
join him on an expedition to an ancient artifact hundreds of
light-years from Earth. With Louis will travel a dangerously-aggressive
alien Kzin "Speaker-To-Animals" and a young human women, Teela Brown.
Louis
is an adventurer, Speaker-To-Animals is an ambassador to humans but the
lovely Teela's only qualification for this expedition is that she is
believed, by the puppeteers, to be lucky and thus an asset to trip.
The
artifact is of course the Ringworld, perhaps the largest artifact in
the universe, and with living space equivalent to millions of Earths.
However, this artifact is strangely inactive. It's down to Louis,
Speaker and Teela to find out why it's there and whether it's safe.
Ringworld Engineers
In
the twenty years that have passed since Louis Wu's original trip to the
"Ringworld", he's gone downhill somewhat. He spends almost all
of his time "under the wire" an addict to the electrical stimulation of
the brain's pleasure centers. He's become a junkie.
Now
he's to be snatched away from this and returned to the Ringworld, this
time unwillingly. With him once more will be Chmeee,
"Speaker-To-Animals", the alien Kzin.
The Ringworld is in a parlous state. Louis and his crew-mates will have
to discover enough about incredible artifact in order to save it, and
the billions of beings upon it. In the process they'll discover
something of the builders of the Ringworld
Ringworld
Throne
In
the latest adventures of the big ring, Louis Wu's attentions are needed
once more, as Protectors are fighting among themselves, vampires are on
the move, and it begins to look as if the Ringworld itself needs a
Protector all its own. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?
Ringworld's
Children
Protectors
may control the Ringworld at present but there are many competitors for
ownership of such a limitless treasure. Around the Ringworld there is a
very tense, very temporary stand-off which will stumble into war. All
the races have their spacecraft orbiting or standing off. The Outsiders
hang back at a distance. ARM and the Kzinti warships circle closer.
Some of these ships use anti-matter weapons and even scrith,
the building material of the Ringworld, is vulnerable to antimatter.
Luckily
Louis & co are on hand to save the Ringworld one more time.
Additional Cover
Art
Known Space
Neutron Star
Peter
Jones |
Protector
Donato
Giancola |
A Hole In
Space |
Convergent
Series |
Crashlander
Don Dixon |
A Gift from Earth
Fred
Gambino
|
World of Ptavvs
Peter Jones
|
Three Books of Knownspace |
Fleet of Worlds
w/Edward M. Lerner
Stephen Martiniere |
Juggler of Worlds
w/Edward M. Lerner
Stephen Martiniere |
Protector
Neutron Star
Includes "Neutron
Star"
"At the Core"
"Flatlander"
"Grendel"
"The Ethics of
Madness"
"The Handicapped"
"A
Relic of the Empire"
"The Soft
Weapon"
The first four
stories listed above are about Beowulf Schaeffer, the
father of Louis Wu, main character in the "Ringworld" novels.
A
Hole In Space
Tales of Known Space
"At
the Bottom of a Hole"
"Becalmed in Hell"
"The Borderland of Sol"
"Cloak of Anarchy"
"The Coldest Place"
"Eye
of an Octopus"
"How the Heroes Die"
"Intent to Deceive"
"The Jigsaw
Man"
"Safe at Any Speed"
"There Is a Tide"
"Wait It Out"
"The
Warriors"
Long
Arm of Gil Hamilton
'ARM'
'Death by Ecstacy' (originally 'The Organleggers')
'The Defenseless Dead'
The
protagonist of these stories is Gil Hamilton, an agent of the ARM
(Amalgamated Regional Militia, the police organization of the United
Nations).
Convergent
Series
Crashlander
In a
collection of all of the Beowulf Shaeffer
stories, including one new one, the crashlander discovers a haunted
planet, uncovers one of the puppeteers' greatest secrets, and has many
other adventures.
A
Gift From Earth
A
solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic
blackness of the planet. The organ banks are the centre of this world.
To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs, and from
them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them alive.
World of Ptavvs
Larry's
telepathic abilities had been trained and
developed to a critical level. But when Larry's mind is taken over by
an alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a
disaster that threatens all mankind.
Fleet
of Worlds
w/Edward M. Lerner
Fleet
of Worlds marks Larry Niven's first full
novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the
playground he created for his bestselling Ringworld series. Teaming up
with fellow SF writer Edward M. Lerner, Fleet of Worlds takes a closer
look at the Human-Puppeteer (Citizens) relations and the events leading
up to Niven's first Ringworld novel.
Kirsten
Quinn-Kovacs is among the best and brightest of her people. She
gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a
dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the
Citizens knew where Kirsten’s people came from….
A
chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy’s core has unleashed a
wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens
flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them.
Someone
must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer.
Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for
any possible dangers in the Fleet’s path—and uncover long-hidden truths
that will shake the foundations of worlds.
Juggler of
Worlds w/Edward M Lerner
<>
For
too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now
Sigmund is pulling the strings...
Covert
agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's
best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and
imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant
paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He
may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the
secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior
technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and
adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from
Known Space.
As
a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for
him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded
him. That fog has begun to lift...
But
even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will
take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.
The Integral Trees
Integral
Trees
Michael
Whelan |
Smoke Rings
Michael
Whelan |
Integral
Trees
When
leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship
Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the
all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and
colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls
Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor
the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren’t prepared
for was the smoke ring–an immense gaseous envelope that had formed
around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home
to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in
conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it,
something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely
space oasis.
Five
hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living
on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth
than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy
remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently
to make contact with its wayward children.
Smoke
Rings
The
Citizen's Tree people discover that the whole
computer library from the starship Discipline may be intact. To find it
they have to journey across the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring
to the Clump - a mass of debris.
Moties
Mote in God's
Eye
Bob Eggleton |
The Gripping Hand
Lee MacLeod |
Mote in
God's Eye
Aliens
- Moties - were first contacted in AD3017
in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his
eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just
might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position
of their home planet.
The
Gripping Hand
Magic
The Magic
Goes Away
Boris
Vallejo |
The Magic May Return
Alicia Austin?
|
More Magic
|
The Magic Goes Away .
The Magic May Return, Anthology
More Magic
The Magic Goes Away (Collection)
Larry
Niven created his popular "Magic Goes Away" universe in 1967, and
it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking
the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven
brought to life a mesmerizing world of wonder and loss, of hope and
despair. The success of his first story collection, The
Magic Goes Away,
birthed two sequel anthologies, The
Magic May Return
and More
Magic.
All three volumes are collected here for the first time, with stories
by Niven himself, as well as contributions by such luminaries of
fantasy as Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Steven Barnes, and Poul
Anderson.
Heorot
Legacy of Heorot
w/Steve Barnes & Jerry Pournelle
Chris Moore |
The Dragons of Heorot
(Beowolf's Children)
w/Steve Barnes & Jerry Pournelle
Fred Gambino |
Legacy of Heorot
Civilization
on Earth was rich, comfortable and
overcrowded. Millions applied, but only the best were chosen to settle
on Tau Ceti Four. The colony was a success, an idyll, the stuff of
dreams, but beyond the perimeter the nightmare has begun to chatter.
The
Dragons of Heorot (Beowolf's Children)
Twenty
years ago, the colonists of Avalon waged a
war against the grendels, reptilian creatures larger than alligators.
Now the younger members of the colony want to explore the mainland
where the grendels still roam - and claim the entire planet for
humankind.
Novels
The Flying Sorcerors/The Mispelled Magician
w/David Gerrold
Boris Vallejo
|
A World out of Time
|
Inferno
w/Jerry Pournelle |
Lucifer's Hammer
w/Jerry Pournelle
|
The
Patchwork Girl |
Oath of Fealty
w/Jerry Pournelle
|
The Flight
of The Horse
Boris Vallejo
(1982)
|
The Decent of Anansi
w/Steven Barnes
|
Footfall
w/ Jerry Pournelle
Michael
Whelan |
Fallen Angels
w/Micheal F. Flynn
& Jerry Pournelle
Mark Salwowski
|
Achilles
Choice
w/ Steven Barnes
Boris
Vallejo |
Destiny's
Road
Michael Whelan
|
Rammer
|
Rainbow Mars
|
Saturn's Race
w/Steven Barnes
|
Building Harlequin's Moon
w/Brenda Cooper
Stephen Martiniere
|
The Flying Sorcerors
w/David Gerrold
A World out of Time
Inferno w/Jerry
Pournelle
Lucifer's Hammer
w/Jerry Pournelle
The Patchwork
Girl
Oath of Fealty
w/ Jerry Pournelle
The Flight of the Horse
The
Decent of Anansi w/Steven Barnes
The Time of The
Warlock
Footfall w/
Jerry Pournelle
It
was big alright. Far bigger than any craft any
human had seen. It had been decelerating for weeks and it was still
travelling fast enough to escape the sun's gravity with ease. Now it
was headed for Earth.
Achille's Choice
w/Steven Barnes
Fallen Angels
w/Michael Flynn & Jerry Pournelle
One
minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the
atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota
Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States
government.
That
government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of
technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the
Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who
would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not
only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a
new Ice Age?
Stranded
in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by
Earth's gravity, the "Angels" had no way back to the Space Habs, the
last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over
the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources
....
Destiny's Road
250
years ago, the starcruiser "Argos" brought
the first settlers to Destiny - and abandoned them there. As the craft
departed, it hovered above the planet and seared a wide Road into the
rock. No settler has ever returned from the Road, but accused of
murder, Jemmy Bloocher has no other escape.
Rammer
Rainbow Mars
The
year is +1108 Atomic Era. Hanville Svetz is
on his way back from +390 with a snake for the Secretary General's
private zoo. On his return, however, he learns that his employer has
died and with the new regime comes a new role. Svetz is to be sent back
in time - not to Earth but to Mars.
Saturn's Race
w/Steven Barnes
Chaz Koto is a
citizen of Xanadu, a near future
perfect society hosting the wealthiest men and women on Earth. Along
with his fellow citizens, he bears the burden of a dark secret that the
outside world would be shocked to hear. Lenore Myles is a student who
travels to Xanadu and becomes involved with Koto. When Koto unwittingly
lends her his access codes, Lenore stumbles upon the grisly truth
behind Xanadu's glittering facade. Lenore is soon on the run, hunted
down by Saturn, a mysterious entity that moves aggressively to contain
the security breach. With the interests of the world's wealthiest
people at stake and powerful technology at Saturn's fingertips, Lenore
is in a race for her life against a truly formidable foe.
Building Harlequin's
Moon
The
first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled
a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids,
threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers.
The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet
Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit
intelligent technology.
But
by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and
must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new,
temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild
their store of antimatter by terraforming the moon.
Gabriel,
the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task,
with all the wrong materials: the wrong ships and tools, and too few
resources. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly-illiterate
children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin's
moon into an antimatter factory.
Rachel
Vanowen is one of these children. Basically a slave girl, she
must do whatever the terraforming Council tells her. She knows that
Council monitors her actions from a circling vessel above Selene's
atmosphere, and is responsible for everything Rachel and her people
know, as well as all the skills, food, and knowledge they have ever
received. With no concept of the future and a life defined with duty,
how will the children of Selene ever survive once the Council is
through terraforming and have abandoned Selene for its ultimate goal of
Ymir?
Collections
All the Myriad Ways
|
Inconstant Moon |
Niven's Laws
|
Limits
Barclay Shaw
|
N-Space |
Playgrounds
of the Mind |
Scatterbrain
|
Draco Tavern
Stephen Martiniere
|
All
the Myriad Ways
An
epidemic of suicides has Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble looking to
the Crosstime Corporation for answers. It all began when Crosstime's
ships started carrying passengers across the time tracks to any of the
infinite alternate realities...
Inconstant Moon
A
freelance technical writer notices that the moon is unusually bright.
At first, he thinks it is some kind of atmospheric phenomenon, but soon
he realizes he will be spending his last night alive. What should he
do?
N
Space
A
collection of science fiction writing from all
phases of the author's career, ranging from stories such as 'Inconstant
Moon' and 'All the Myriad Ways' to extracts from his novels. They are
underlined by Niven's comments and afterthoughts, together with essays
by other science fiction writers.
Playgrounds
of the Mind
Scatterbrain
Draco Tavern
When
a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around
the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the
North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent
spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and
a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from
talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann established a
tavern catering to all of various species of visiting aliens, a place
he named the Draco Tavern.
From
the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come
twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering
place, collected for the first time in one volume, including:
"The
Subject Is Closed": A priest visits the tavern and goes one-on-one
with a chirpsithra alien on the subject of God and life after death.
"Table
Mannners: A Folk Tale": Rick Schumann is invited to hunt with
five folk aliens, but he's not quite sure what their hunt entails, or
if he will be the hunted.
"Wisdom
of Demons": The age-old question of wisdom vs. knowledge is
asked when Rick is confronted by a human who has been granted the
wisdom of an individual gligstith(click)optok alien.
"Losing
Mars" in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars
and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have
mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet.
Join
Rick Schummann and his staff as they explore the alien passersby
and attempt to chronicle the seemingly infinite alien species that
spend a few moments pondering life and all its questions within the
Draco Tavern.
As Editor:
The Best of all Possible Wars: The
Best
of the Man-Kzin Wars
The Best
of All Possible Wars |
Known Space
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Joyce
whom he met at the 1967 NYCon. Frequent collaborator with Jerry
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