I'm reading the Know Space stories, and this is great. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Unjustly imprisoned on the Moon Eli finds love. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Some of the stories are outdated but it's interesting to see how things have changed. Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2009. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. : Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Flatlander: The Collected Tales of Gil "The Arm" Hamilton (Known Space). 7 Ratings 10 Want to read 0 Currently reading 9 Have read Overview View 9 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1975 Publisher Ballantine Books Language English Pages 240 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. What a Universe he's created. Learn more. . Please try again. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? So, after a fair bit of research (before I found a great reference here), I put together a solid read order for all the main stories on the Known Space timeline. I recently decided to re-read a bunch of Larry Niven stories from his Known Space Series, but was at a complete loss about the read order of the various stories, short stories and novels that encompass the timeline. , Item Weight With the use of boosterspice, humans can easily live hundreds of years and, theoretically, indefinitely. , X-Ray Something went wrong. [1] Late in that decade, Niven invited other authors to participate in a series of shared-universe novels, with the ManKzin Wars as their setting. Known Space is the huge area of the galaxy in which man has explored, though not necessarily settled. (A further edited version of the outline was published in N-Space in 1990. , Publisher , ISBN-13 Please try your request again later. Ringworld's Children reveals that there is life in hyperspace around gravity wells and that hyperspace predators eat spaceships which appear in hyperspace close to large masses, thus explaining why a structure as large as the Ringworld can safely engage the hyperdrive in a star's gravity well. However, this is the only time that hyperdrive is described this way. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Even after all these years. All rights reserved. In short, the ARM hunts down women who have illegal pregnancies and suppresses all new technologies. Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven Paperback - November 12, 1985 by Larry Niven (Author) 59 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $5.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $5.61 24 Used from $1.63 Mass Market Paperback $5.88 12 Used from $4.00 2 New from $37.79 Tales of Known Space Larry Niven 4.38 16 ratings0 reviews Kindle Edition Published October 13, 2021 Book details & editions About the author Larry Niven 534 books2,941 followers Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. web pages If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Some of the stories are outdated but it's interesting to see how things have changed. approx] The Coldest Place ( Tales of Known Space aka TKS) [1977 C.E. Niven! Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, The World of Ptavvs (Tales of known space). Answers might cost him his life. The first volume was published in 1988. The broadest overview of all of Known Space is found in the collection Three Books of Known Space (Del Rey, 1996), which contains all the short stories from Tales of Known Space (now out of print) and has the short novels World of Ptavvs and A Gift From Earth thrown in free, as well. In the vast majority of Known Space material, hyperdrive requires that a ship be outside a star's gravity well to use. Some individuals in the stories display limited paranormal or "psionic" abilities. Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven. , Publication date Some of the stories are outdated but it's interesting to see how things have changed. Something went wrong. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, "Niven lifts the reader far from the conventional world -- and does it with dash. Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven Larry Niven, Rick Sternbach (Contributor) 4.19 5,838 ratings71 reviews Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy. Their basic function is to enforce mandatory birth control on overcrowded Earth, and restrict research which might lead to dangerous weapons. Please try again. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. They place it with a human envoy, who is a telepath, and envelop both in field. In addition to winning the war for humanity, it allowed the re-integration of all the human colonies, which were previously separated by distance. But he had not predicted her stubbornness or her beauty. : Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. A stasis field may be recognized by its perfectly reflecting surface, so perfect that it reflects 100% of all radiation and particles, including neutrinos. Flatlander: The Collected Tales of Gil "The Arm" Hamilton (Known Space). Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Boosterspice only works on Homo sapiens, whereas the Tree-of-Life compound will work on any hominid descended from the Pak. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Search the history of over 797 billion Close Hooray! , ISBN-10 There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. approx] Becalmed In Hell (TKS) [1989 C.E.] Learn more about the program. Tales Of Known Space Paperback - January 1, 1980 by Larry Niven (Author) 59 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $5.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $5.61 23 Used from $1.63 Mass Market Paperback $6.66 14 Used from $2.99 2 New from $37.79 Language English Publisher Oorbit/ Futura Publication date January 1, 1980 See all details : Uploaded by Now this SF classic is adapted into a thrilling manga adventure by Robert Mandell and, Black Cat Weekly #28 features another interview by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzerthis time with Larry Niven.. : Does this item contain quality or formatting issues? xiv, 238 pages ; 18 cm. Late in the series, Known Space is an irregularly shaped "bubble" about 60 light-years across. The series features a number of "superscience" inventions which figure as plot devices. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. He is known to millions as the premier modern author of rigorous, scientifically consistent hard SF, the champion of 'SF without a net'. Wir sind nicht allein Als eines Tages Astronomen seltsame Gebilde in der Nhe des Saturns entdecken, sind nur wenige auf der Erde beunruhigt. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Even after all these years. They are not actual photos of the physical item for sale and should not be relied upon as a basis for edition or condition. Niven has a knack for entertaining his readers by including the surprising and unusual. Becalmed in hell Howie's spaceship had a malfunction.but it might be only psychosomatic! Coin slots and a telephone dial were set into the glass at sternum level" (from Flash Crowd). A more advanced Quantum II hyperdrive introduced later is able to cover the same distance in one and a quarter minutes (420,768c). In Howie's very unusual spacecraft has developed a fault that might require some canny thought to fix it. Larry Niven - Tales of Known Space, Reading Order. A Slaver stasis field creates a bubble of spacetime disconnected from the entropy gradient of the rest of the universe. This book was collected in Three Books of Known Space. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, The World of Ptavvs (Tales of known space). TOKYO (AP) Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for "Space Battleship Yamato" and other classics using a fantastical style and antiwar themes, has died at age 85. Try again. Please try again. Nevertheless, in many Known Space stories, ARM agents operate or exert influence in other human star systems through the "Bureau of Alien Affairs" (see In the Hall of the Mountain King, Procrustes, The Borderland of Sol, and "Neutron Star"). Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The petite woman with the tenacity of a mule may just find, An unmanned alien ship suddenly appears from a point in space within the solar system and heads toward Earth. Unable to add item to List. Known Space is the huge area of the galaxy in which man has explored, though not necessarily settled. the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy

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Howie's spaceship had a malfunctionbut it might be only psychosomatic!

Wait it out
He was trapped on Plutoand all his assets were frozen!

The borderland of Sol
Forward possessed the ultimate weaponbut no one would ever see it!

The jigsaw man
The organ banks want younow!

Cloak of anarchy
They were free to be anything but violentbut that wasn't enough!

-- plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the futureand, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories! He lives in Chatsworth, California. : The hulls are impervious to any type of matter or energy, with the exception of antimatter (which destroys the hull, as demonstrated in "Flatlander"), gravitation (demonstrated in "Neutron Star"), and visible light (which passes through the hull). [1], Ringworld (1970) won the annual Nebula, Hugo, and Locus best novel awards. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. , Language , Enhanced typesetting Main influences discussed extensively in Alastair Reynolds, Essay: "Future Histories", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tales_of_Known_Space&oldid=1114138867, "Timeline for Known Space" (1975 essay, Larry Niven), "Introduction: My Universe and Welcome to It!" Short-range booths are similar in appearance to an old style telephone booth: one enters, "dials" one's desired destination, and is immediately deposited in a corresponding booth at the destination. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. The Tales were originally conceived as two separate series, the Belter stories set roughly from 2000 to 2350 CE and the Neutron Star / Ringworld stories set in 2651 CE and later. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Of course I cannot give you any examples as that would spoil the book. Niven demonstrated this, to his own satisfaction, with "Safe at Any Speed" (1967). : There is a bit of jumping around and pulling chapters out of certain books, but this is what I ended up with. Boosterspice is a compound that increases the longevity and reverses aging of human beings. Pages: 242. Unable to add item to List. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. . Several limitations to stepping disks are mentioned in the Ringworld novels. A series of short stories and novels charting the expansion of mankind through space over millenia. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. : Several times weve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. : , Paperback Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. His manga works "Galaxy Express 999" and "Space Pirate Captain Herlock" were adapted into television anime series in the 1970s and became huge hits in and outside Japan. The Tales of Known Space were first published primarily as short stories or serials in science fiction magazines. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Does this item contain inappropriate content? For the physical concept, see. Saving to read later, but the ability to source through the Amazon network just excellent, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find the book. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture. Agents with natural tendencies toward paranoia were medicated into docility during their off duty hours, through the aforementioned science of psychistry (see Madness Has Its Place and Juggler of Worlds). One phenomenon travelers in hyperspace can experience is the so-called 'blind spot' should they look through a porthole or camera screen, giving the impression that the walls around the porthole or sides of the camera view screen are expanding to 'cover up the outside'. Please try again. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017, Read it before, then gave one as a gift, they liked better than Harry Potter, Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. ", The author also published an "outline" for a story which would "destroy" the Known Space Series (or more precisely, reveal much of the Known Space background to be an in-universe hoax), in an article entitled "Down in Flames" Archived 2013-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. This effect is regarded as a limitation based on the laws of physics. These interventions begin following the Man-Kzin Wars and the introduction of hyperdrive, presumably as part of a general re-integration of human societies. LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. Learn more. Thirteen interconnected short stories set in Larry Niven's future history series, spanning the 20th to 31st centuries. For example, though a high speed impact with the surface of a planet or star may cause no harm to the hull, the occupants will be crushed if they are not protected by additional measures such as a stasis field (Ringworld) or a gravity compensating field. : Embittered and angry, she returns to Foggy Point, Washington, the small town where she spent some of her happier, Bri's uncertain of whether she finds it more unnerving or thrilling that Kole, a warrior well over six feet in height and built like the hulk, watches her with hungry, covetous eyes, until the, Long-arm quilter Harriet Truman and her quilt group the Loose Threads set off for what should be an enjoyable week of stitching at the Angel Harbor Folk Art School, where member Lauren Sawyer is, Widowed Vanessa Damery had two young children to raise, a deteriorating estate to improve, and a household full of pseudo-relatives and dependents to placate. Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets and drouds (wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain), and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging (as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths (teleporters used only on planetary surfaces), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the droud which works without direct contact. : Please try again. Of course I cannot give you any examples as that would spoil the book. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Even after all these years. [19] The article itself notes that the outline was made obsolete by the publication of Ringworld. What a Universe he's created. on November 20, 2020, There are no reviews yet. Known Space is the huge area of the galaxy in which man has explored, though not necessarily settled. In Ringworld's Children, it is suggested boosterspice may actually be adapted from Tree-of-Life, without the symbiotic virus that enabled hominids to metamorphose from Pak Breeder stage to Pak Protector stage (mutated Pak breeders were the ancestors of both Homo sapiens and the hominids of the Ringworld). Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven, June 12, 1983, Del Rey edition, Mass Market Paperback in English Particular note is given to the inclusion of the timeline chart in Tales of Known Space.[2]. . One of the most significant Latina writers of her time.Entertainment Weekly. Niven! Publisher He lives in Chatsworth, California. 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