Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

The Outsiders in Larry Niven's Known Space universe are cryogenic creatures based on liquid helium.

* A world in Larry Niven's Known Space stories.

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters.

The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.

* Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven ( 1975 collection )

** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )

The epithet " Known Space " is an in-universe term that refers to a relatively small part of the galaxy centered around Earth.

The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.

The Ringworld orbits a sun outside Known Space, but it is a well-established artifact within the Known Space " universe ".

The stories that constitute the Known Space series were originally conceived as two separate series: the Belter stories, featuring solar-system colonization and slower-than-light travel with fusion-powered and Bussard ramjet ships, and the Neutron Star / Ringworld series of stories, set much further into the future, which feature faster-than-light ships using " hyperdrive ".

The protagonist Louis Wu thinks this indicates the Kzinti in Known Space have bred intelligence out of their females.

Their commercial empire directly and indirectly controls events throughout Known Space and beyond, and Puppeteer plots are behind many of the larger events in Known Space.

* Thrintun: An ancient species that ruled a large empire, including the region of Known Space, through telepathic mind control about 1. 5 billion years ago.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

Known to the Aztecs as huautli, it is thought to have represented up to 80 % of their caloric consumption before the conquest.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

The seemingly immortal and omnipotent Leto is left as Emperor of the Known Universe, with Ghanima at his side.

Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered.

Known as a top-down formation scenario, this theory is quite simple yet no longer widely accepted because observations of the early universe strongly suggest that objects grow from bottom-up ( i. e. smaller objects merging to form larger ones ).

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Known to have been played as far back as prehistoric times, games are generally distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration.

In particular, it is possible that he copied descriptions of the crocodile, hippopotamus and phoenix from Hecataeus's ' Circumnavigation of the Known World ' ( Periegesis / Periodos ges ), even mis-representing the source as ' Heliopolitans ' ( Histories 2. 73 ).

Known in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Known as the Double Elephant folio after its double elephant paper size, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced and the finest aquatint work.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Known in French as fougasse, the term is sometimes still used in the present day to describe such devices.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

Unlike many fictional universes, the component tales of Known Space were largely released as short stories or serials in various science fiction anthology magazines.

* In Larry Niven's Known Space fictional universe ( 1964 ), neutronium is actual neutron star core material.

** Amalgamated Regional Militia, a fictional group from Larry Niven's Known Space universe

For example, Larry Niven's fictional universe Known Space has an approximately 135 year period in which Niven allows other authors to write stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.

The Bubbleworld concept was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in his fictional Known Space stories, describing such worlds as the primary habitats of the Belters, a civilization who had colonized the Asteroid Belt.

The Thrintun ( singular Thrint ), in Larry Niven's fictional Known Space universe, are a long-extinct species which ruled the galaxy through telepathic mind control.

The Kzinti ( singular Kzin ) are a fictional, very warlike and bloodthirsty race of cat-like aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space series.

* The Thrintun, from Larry Niven's fictional universe of Known Space, were also called slavers.

Kdatlyno are an extraterrestrial species in Larry Niven's fictional Known Space universe.

Pierson's Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from American author Larry Niven's Known Space books.

The Tnuctipun ( singular Tnuctip ) are a fictional extinct alien species in Larry Niven's Known Space series.

Known Space is a fictional universe created by Larry Niven, and later used by a number of authors.

The Tree-of-Life is a fictional plant ( the ancestor of yams, with similar appearance and taste ) in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, for which all Hominids have a built-in genetic craving.

Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two forms of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

Known as the World Pillar Mountains in Faerûn or Wu Pi Te Shao in Kara-Tur, the “ Roof of the World ” is the largest mountain range in the fictional fantasy world of Toril and hence can be compared to real-world Himalaya.

The Outsiders are a fictional alien race in Larry Niven's Known Space series.

Starseeds, also called sailseeds, are a fictional life form in the Known Space science fiction series by Larry Niven.

* Pak Protector, a form of life in Larry Niven's Known Space fictional universe

* Outsider ( Known Space ), a fictional species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe

His second book, The Known World, was set in a fictional Virginia county and had a protagonist who was a mixed-race black planter and slaveholder.

In Larry Niven's fictional Known Space universe, General Products is a Pierson's Puppeteers company which produces various spacecraft components.

This category contains fictional forms of life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.