Niven also writes humorous stories ; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.

Niven has also written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called Mana to power a rule-based " technological " magic.

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.

Pioneers such as Larry Niven ( also published in Dangerous Visions ) broke new ground with fresh scientific discoveries and imaginative extrapolations.

* Larry Niven featured humanoid Martians with a primitive material culture inhabiting an environment of red dust and salpetric acid, most notably in Protector ( 1973 ), which also includes their genocide.

Niven also had special scorn for the newspaper columnists covering the war who typed out self-glorifying and excessively florid prose about their meagre wartime experiences.

Niven also worked in television.

It was also presented on Lux Radio Theater three times as an hour-long broadcast: first on December 19, 1949, with Tyrone Power and David Niven, second on May 11, 1953 with Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter and third on March 1, 1955, again with Grant and Thaxter.

Apart from leads in several French films such as Max Ophüls ' The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953, again with Danielle Darrieux ) and Nana ( 1955, opposite Martine Carol ), he also moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of Four Star Theatre ; Four Star Productions would make him and partners David Niven and Dick Powell rich.

In addition the film also includes home footage of many of John Mills ' friends and fellow cast members including Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Walt Disney, David Niven, Dirk Bogarde, Rex Harrison and Tyrone Power.

Gerrold, Niven, and Fontana also contributed commentaries to the DVD of the first season.

Braben also cites the works of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert L. Forward, Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card as influences.

* The Gripping Hand ( 1993, written with Larry Niven ) ( also titled The Moat around Murcheson's Eye )

The Kzinti also appeared, along with allusions to slavers and stasis boxes, in The Slaver Weapon, an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series written by Niven, as a proud and carnivorous species.

The Kzinti reappear in the comic The Wristwatch Plantation, also by Niven ( and which included the Bebebebeque from his Draco Tavern stories ).

However, Niven also erroneously stated that there were no German troops on Sark at the time.

They were also known to have direct conversion of mass to energy and a telepathy shield ( these two technologies are lost by the time most Niven stories take place ).

Niven took the name Tree-of-Life from the Book of Genesis ; specifically to the fruit of the " Tree of Life " that could make Adam and Eve immortal ( Genesis 3: 22-24 ), which is quoted as the foreword to the novel Protector, and also mentioned by Brennan within the novel.

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.

Other science fiction authors have also delved into the tactics of space combat, such as David Weber in his Honorverse series as well as Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in their Mote in God's Eye series.

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

The novel also explores the interactions of multiple elements invented or described in previous Niven short stories or novels.

At the time, Niven was also managing Great White and Guns N ' Roses.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

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

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.

In addition to the two aliens, Niven includes a number of concepts from his other Known Space stories:

* The Ringworld Role-Playing Game: A Re-appraisal From Other Reviews on " Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven " fan site

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

* The Man-Kzin Wars: A shared universe based on the Kzinti Conflicts in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, featuring writers personally selected by Niven

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.

Numerous examples of this are to be found in the Known Space stories of Larry Niven.

* Known Space ( Niven ) – Known Space

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.

* Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven

Crashlander is a fix-up novel by Larry Niven published in 1994 ( ISBN 978-0345381682 ), set in his Known Space universe.

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

* Larry Niven Known Space site

Ringworld's Children is a 2004 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, the fourth in the Ringworld series set in the Known Space universe.

* Beowulf Shaeffer, a character in the works of Larry Niven in his Known Space universe

The Patchwork Girl is a story in Known Space by Larry Niven.

* Tasp, a device in the Known Space short stories written by author Larry Niven which remotely mimics the effects of wireheading

* In the " Afterthoughts " section of the Tales of Known Space collection, Niven writes: " I keep meeting people who have done mathematical treatments of the problem raised in the short story ' Neutron Star ', .... Alas and dammit, Shaeffer can't survive.

Drawn from Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven