Like his colleague and friend Jerry Pournelle, Niven is known for his right-wing politics, though they tend to be a bit more subtly expressed in stories where Pournelle wasn’t involved. A very powerful necromancer, Nevinyrral shows up, on the very powerful Nevinyrral's Disk, and also wrote the 'Necromancer's Handbook', a field guide for aspiring necromancers.

There is more than one Shout-Out to him in Magic: The Gathering. you do the math.) The name is a play on 'Speaker-to-Animals', one of the heroes of Ringworld.

(He was bored, the awards ceremony was going long. Niven is known among his fans as ' Speaker-to-Seafood' because of a long and very public argument he once had with a lobster during the Guest of Honor dinner/Hugo Awards ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention. Niven's story 'The Jigsaw Man' was originally published in Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking anthology Dangerous Visions. He also wrote the influential Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex, referenced often in geek culture, and some of the backstory for the post- Crisis on Infinite Earths Green Lantern Corps origins. Niven's other notable work includes The Integral Trees and its sequels, A World Out of Time which examines the implications of slower-than-light relativistic travel used as a form of Time Travel, and the Fantasy series of The Magic Goes Away ( Namer of that trope). He's also worked with Steven Barnes on the Dream Park series, both writers on the “Heorot” series, and others like Michael Flynn, Brenda Cooper, Edward Lerner, and Gregory Benford. (By the 90s, “much” became “nearly all.”) He worked extensively with Jerry Pournelle, including The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer. Starting in the 1970s, much of Niven’s work was in collaborations with other authors. Known Space is notable for the many biologically plausible Starfish Aliens which neither look nor think like humans. a time close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven, and can figure out the language, but distant enough to get me miraculous medical treatments and a ticket to the Moon.'Ī prolific writer of Speculative Fiction, Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is best known for The 'Verse of Known Space, a very vast and detailed universe, which includes Ringworld and its sequels (which were one of the inspirations for a certain Xbox Launch title which was an FPS.) the mysteries of Gil the ARM the Man-Kzin Wars, which ended up a professional Round Robin the voyages of Beowulf Shaeffer the adventures of Louis Wu the human-ancestral Pak Protectors and the Precursors known as the Slavers.

'If I had a time machine, I'd visit the near future.

Footfall by Larry Niven