Larry Niven
**Laurence van Cott Niven** — known as *Larry Niven* — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction 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, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.
Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic.
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Books
- Inconstant moon 1900
- A Hole in Space 1974
- The Magic Goes Away 1978
- Destiny's Road 1997
- Fleet of worlds 2007
- Convergent Series 1980
- All the Myriad Ways 1971
- The long arm of Gil Hamilton 1976
- Fate of worlds 2012
- The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two 1962
- N-Space 1990
- The patchwork girl 1980
- The 13 crimes of science fiction 1979
- Destroyer of worlds 2009
- Limits 1985
- The smoke ring 1987
- The California voodoo game 1991
- Bowl of heaven 2012
- Dream Park 1981
- Fallen angels 1991
- The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction 1992
- Flatlander 1995
- Mathenauts 1987
- Where do we go from here? 1971