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Niven's friend Billie More noted: " This is not kind, but when Hjördis died I can't think of a single soul who was sorry ".
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A 2009 biography of actor David Niven had assertions, based on information from his widow and a good friend of Niven's, that he too had had an affair with the princess.
Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after World War II.
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English private schools at the time of Niven's boyhood were noted for their strict and sometimes brutal discipline.
* Larry Niven's Gil ' the ARM ' Hamilton stories: Death by Ecstasy ( 1968 ), ARM ( 1975 ), and The Patchwork Girl ( 1980 ) ( although it should be noted that, as these stories are science fiction, the methods of producing the locked-room mystery are not necessarily based on present-day science )
Nessus is a male ( of the second type, his species has three sexes ) character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, of the species Pierson's Puppeteer, an herbivorous species noted for two heads whose mouths act as capable hands.
Sidney Coleman reviewed the novel favorably in F & SF ; although describing it as really " two long novelettes passing as a novel ," he noted that " both halves of the book are permeated with the ingenuity that has been the driving energy of Niven's stories since his earliest work.
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The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.
Niven's most famous contribution to the SF genre is his concept of the Ringworld, a band of approximately the same diameter as Earth's orbit rotating around a star.
One of Niven's best known humorous works is " Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex ", in which he uses real-world physics to underline the difficulties of Superman and a human woman ( Lois Lane or Lana Lang ) mating.
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.
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 ".
The impact of inventions and technology on society is a recurring, if not central theme in Niven's work: for example, addiction to electric brain stimulation resulting in " wireheads ", or the secondary and tertiary effects of an invention such as teleportation on social behavior, problems, and mores.
In Niven's novel Ringworld's Children the Ringworld itself is converted into a gigantic Quantum II hyperdrive and launched into hyperspace while within its star's gravity well.
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.
* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.
* In Larry Niven's harsh Known Space stories ( 1964-) Mars is a backwater bypassed by humans in their rush to the mineral wealth of the Asteroid Belt.
* The title Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars ( 1999 ) alludes to Robinson's three-colored Mars trilogy, and the plot concerns a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars.
* In Larry Niven's Known Space fictional universe ( 1964 ), neutronium is actual neutron star core material.
Given its dimensions ( 10, 000 kilometers in diameter ) it is more like Banks ' Culture Orbitals ( though much smaller ) than Niven's behemoth.
" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.
Mana is a limited resource in Niven's work, a fact which eventually will lead to the end of all magic in his antediluvian fantasy setting when all mana is depleted.
David Brin's science fiction series about the Uplift Universe is also often mentioned as inspiration for the Star Control II universe, as well as Larry Niven's Known Space universe.
In one scene the younger daughter of Niven's character is seen reading Fanny Hill, whereas his older daughter, Linda, has apparently graduated from Cleland's sensationalism and is seen reading Sartre instead.
In Larry Niven's " Known Space " mythos ( 1965 to present ), there is a heavy-gravity species somewhat resembling a giant slug which upon their discovery were immediately given the genus and species " Frumious bandersnatch ".
In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, Luyten's Star is Down's primary ( known as " L5 1668 ", a corrupted designation ).
In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, an alien species known as the Bandersnatch, also edible and intelligent, is described as being " smooth as a shmoo.
Niven's and when
In film, one of the restaurant's most famous mentions is in The Guns of Navarone, when David Niven's character leans over his wounded companion and tells him that he will recover in no time, and they will return to London and go straight to Simpson's and have roast beef.
Niven's stasis fields followed conductive surfaces when established, and the resulting frozen space became a completely invulnerable and perfectly reflective object.
Niven's and Hjördis
All four of Niven's children, as well as many of his friends, told Lord that Hjördis, unable to achieve an acting career, had affairs with other men and became an alcoholic.
Hjördis recovered from her alcoholism after Niven's death in 1983, but returned to it before her own death of a stroke in 1997 at age 78.
Niven's and who
Roxburgh, who was unlike any of Niven's previous headmasters.
: And a special acknowledgment to the author of Niven's Law: " There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.
* A reference to the title can be found at the end of Larry Niven's 1965 short story " Becalmed in Hell ," in which the character Eric, who lives as a brain and spinal cord on life-support, and works as the directly connected controller of a NASA exploratory vessel, signs a telegram, " Donovan's Brain.
In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a wirehead is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant ( called a " droud " in the stories ) to stimulate the pleasure centres of their brain.
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Niven's essay " Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation " was published in the collection All the Myriad Ways In it he discusses the ideas that underlie his teleportation stories.
The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.
The Ringworld role-playing game box set was titled " Larry Niven's Ringworld: Roleplaying Adventure Beneath the Great Arch ", referring to the way the Ringworld looked from its interior surface.
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.
A hull material that gets stronger with pressure in the film The Core was nicknamed unobtainium, but the concept under different names can be seen in the anti-gravity material cavorite and the super-strong material scrith from Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, which requires a tensile strength on the order of the forces binding an atomic nucleus together.
In this movie, the main focus was on David Niven's role as Sir Charles Lytton, the infamous jewel thief nicknamed " the Phantom ", and his plan to steal the Pink Panther diamond.
Niven's grandfather William Degacher was killed in the Battle of Isandlwana ( 1879 ), during the Zulu War.
The source for the dates and places of birth of the above was William Edward Graham Niven's army service record which, curiously, does not give a place of birth for David, but his birth certificate states Belgrave Mansions, London.
However, Niven's second marriage was as tumultuous as his first marriage was content.
Kristina later told biographer Graham Lord that she was convinced that she was Niven's secret child by another fashion model, Mona Gunnarson.
His first Hollywood motion picture was 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days in which he played David Niven's coachman.
Niven and Ustinov were working on the film The Way Ahead, as actor and writer respectively, but the difference in their ranks-Niven was a Lieutenant-Colonel and Ustinov a private-made their regular association militarily impossible ; to solve the problem, Ustinov was appointed as Niven's batman.
Niven's encounter with the streaker was voted the top Oscars moment by film fans in 2001.
Niven numbers, Niven's constant, and Niven's theorem are named in his honor ; also, in 2000, the asteroid 12513 Niven, discovered in 1998, was named after him.
While these works were not the first in the " Magic Universe " or " Warlock " series, they marked a turning point after the 1973 oil crisis and Niven's subsequent transformation of the series into an allegory for a modern-day energy crisis ; the novella was also the first work longer than a short story.
The problems and solutions were originally published anonymously, but the solution of this problem ( and one other ) were included in Niven's The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, which was published eleven years after Maxwell's death.
The githyanki / illithid relationship was inspired by Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs.
In Niven's story, ambulatory partner Howie found no mechanical reason for brainship Eric's claim of immobility, which was endangering both of their lives.
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