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* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author
* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.
A direct brain-to-computer interface is a valuable, but expensive, luxury in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's novel Oath of Fealty.
C. L. Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon, and was a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership including Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad.
Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.
Category: Short stories by Larry Niven
Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.
The original release of Magic: The Gathering paid homage to Larry Niven on a card called " Nevinyrral's Disk ," with Nevinyrral being " Larry Niven " spelled backwards.
Netrunner paid a similar homage to Larry Niven with the card " Nevinyrral ".
Larry Niven at Utopiales | Les Utopiales in 2010
Larry Niven is also known in science fiction fandom for " Niven's Law ": There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
* Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven ( 1975 collection )
* Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 ( 2003 )
* Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 ( 2003 )
* Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 ( 2003 )
* The Best of Larry Niven ( November 2010, ISBN 978-1-59606-331-0 )
* Death by Ecstasy: Illustrated Adaptation of the Larry Niven Novella ( 1991 )
Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.
The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".
* 1992 – Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, Fallen Angels

Larry and Jerry
An article by Larry Elder in FrontPage Magazine referred to an incident on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect where the term " white trash " was used in reference to guests on the Jerry Springer Show and asked ' Why Is It Okay to Say " White Trash ?"'.
" Jerry Seinfeld and executive producer Larry David both liked Wolff's additions, and three episodes were produced with the new style music.
The 1991 SF novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn constitutes a tribute to SF fandom.
The game was inspired by such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest Saga series by E. C. Tubb, the Foundation stories of Isaac Asimov, H. Beam Piper's Space Viking, Larry Niven's Known Space, Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium, Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League and several other works of science fiction literature.
Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.
With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges ( Moe and Larry ) needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard.
* The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy ( 1976, with Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement, A. E. van Vogt, Frank Herbert, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Norman Spinrad )
Numerous science fiction stories and novels center around an impact event ; possibly the best-selling was the novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
In the novel Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Phlegethon is guarded not by centaurs, but by military officers taken from all eras of history ( with instructions to shoot anyone who tries to escape ).
During this time, he wrote a number of screenplays, including The English Speaker, about Josef Breuer's analysis of Anna O .; adaptations of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose ; a script about Jerry Lee Lewis ; and a stage adaptation of Sansho the Bailiff that was to be directed by Andrzej Wajda, in addition to continuing work on the Q script.
* Avalon-Setting of The Legacy of Heorot and Beowulf's Children by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes.
" The long-running comedy series Seinfeld, created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld includes a notable episode entitled " The Doodle ", in which a crude drawing of George Costanza provides the mise en scène for subsequent friction between characters.
The county polled a majority for Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brady and Democratic Senatorial candidate Larry LaRocco, but Barack Obama lost in 2008 by an eight point margin.
It was only after the first episode that NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric, and demanded that creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David add a woman to the cast.
In 1989, he was cast as Cosmo Kramer in the NBC television series Seinfeld, which was created by fellow Fridays cast member Larry David and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, and Larry Welborn participated in these sessions.
In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer, written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, fragments of a comet strike the Earth, causing massive tidal waves to destroy most of the planet's coastal cities.
Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy
Other notable disc jockeys who worked at WLS include Fred Winston, Art Roberts, Ron " Ringo " Riley, Gene Taylor, Mort Crowley, Larry Lujack, Dex Card, Clark Weber, Chuck Buell, Kris Erik Stevens, Joel Sebastian, Gary Gears, Jerry Kay, Bob Sirott, John Records Landecker, Yvonne Daniels, Steve Dahl, Garry Meier, Brant Miller, Steve King, and Tommy Edwards.
Many famous actors and entertainers have resided there, including Burt Reynolds, Rip Torn, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, James Dean, Madonna, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Alicia Keys, John Michael Bolger, and Sylvester Stallone.

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