![]() Niven is known for his collaborations, especially with Jerry Pournelle, beginning with The Mote in God’s Eye (1974) and continuing with Inferno (1975), Lucifer’s Hammer (1977), Oath of Fealty (1981), Footfall (1985), The Gripping Hand (1993), The Burning City (2000), Burning Tower (2005), and Escape from Hell (2009). His other solo novels are A Gift from Earth (1968), Protector (1973), A World Out of Time (1976), The Magic Goes Away (1978), The Patchwork Girl (1980), The Smoke Ring (1987), The Integral Trees (1994), Destiny’s Road (1997), and Rainbow Mars (1999). Ringworld (1970) won both the Hugo and Nebula and began a series that includes The Ringworld Engineers (1979), The Ringworld Throne (1996), and Ringworld’s Children (2004). His other Hugo winners are “Inconstant Moon” (1971), “The Hole Man” (1975), and “The Borderland of Sol” (1975).įirst novel World of Ptavvs (1966) began his vast Known Space future history. He won his first Hugo in 1967 for “Neutron Star”. Niven began freelance writing in 1964, the year of his first short fiction publication, “The Coldest Place”, in If. ![]() ![]() ![]() He got his BA in mathematics from Washburn University in Topeka KS in 1962, then returned to California to do post-graduate work at UCLA from 1962-63. Lawrence Van Cott Niven was born in Los Angeles and attended the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1956-58, but didn’t graduate. ![]()
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