The world is described in a series of novels by Niven, Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, and, after the game's publication, The Ringworld Throne and Ringworld's Children.

His friend, David Niven, described him as " a pixie — timid, always warm-hearted, with a penchant for schoolboy jokes.

Fantasy writer Larry Niven in his 1969 short story Not Long Before the End described mana as a natural resource which is used or channeled by wizards to cast magic spells.

In 1973, the story " Flash Crowd " by Larry Niven described a concept similar to flash mobs.

Pierson's Puppeteers are described by Niven as having two forelegs and a single hindleg ending in hooved feet and two snake-like heads instead of a humanoid upper body.

According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, an animated character based on a hand puppet ; Pierson accordingly described the alien he had met as a Puppeteer, given some resemblance of the head and neck with Cecil.

He was described by Peter Wright as resembling David Niven: " the same perfect English manners, easy charm, and immaculate dress sense.

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

Niven has described the problems that such a character and such a trait pose to his story and to his fictional universe.

George Niven is described as having blue watery eyes, having gray and white hair and being chubby.

In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, " You look like a goddamn rat pack.

* In the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, starring David Niven, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas ) rescues a princess captured by the Thuggee and sentenced to burn to death in the funeral pyre with her deceased husband.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

In late 1965, Ransohoff finally gave Tate her first major role in a motion picture in the film Eye of the Devil, co-starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, and David Hemmings.

Graham Lord, in NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven, suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. Niven had been having an affair for some time before her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been David Niven's biological father, a supposition which has some support from her children.

While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.

The film gave Niven one of his first significant parts, and he wrote that Colbert took a nurturing role towards him and " was the soul of fun and a most generous performer ," although he noted that her insistence that she be filmed only from her left side created difficulties for the cameramen.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

David Merlin ( David Niven ), the playboy son of the store's owner, J. B. Merlin ( Charles Coburn ), is sympathetic to the " unwed mother " and arranges for her to get her job back.

Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven, and according to his authorized biography, even wanted to marry him, but he wasn't faithful to her.

The moody " Freudian western " was written by her first husband Niven Busch.

She received good reviews for her acting in Separate Tables ( 1958 ), with Burt Lancaster and David Niven, and The Story on Page One ( 1960 ) with Anthony Franciosa.

* In Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, a lithely built woman doubts her sexuality with misgivings as to whether or not she is a freemartin although she is not a cow.

During the frequent downtime during the filming of Casino Royale, Filmways hired Southern to do a " tightening and brightening " job on the screenplay of the occult thriller Eye of the Devil, which starred David Niven and featured Sharon Tate in her first film role.

The final story arc began in the summer of 1985, when country singer Travis Marsh ( played by Lavin's real-life husband Kip Niven ), discovering that he's falling for Alice, " kidnaps " her to take her to Nashville, telling her it's time to follow her dream there.

Because of her parents ' fame, Mills grew up surrounded by famous actors such as Rex Harrison, David Niven, and Marlon Brando and she recalled her childhood in the 2000 documentary film Sir John Mills ' Moving Memories which was written by her brother, Jonathan.

Asked later by Czukay what he had thought of the music, Niven replied: " It was great, but I didn't know it was music.

The noted science fiction author Larry Niven used the concept of stasis fields and stasis boxes to a great extent in a direct or indirect fashion all through his many novels and short stories set in the Known Space series.

A long career in TV followed seeing him play a wide variety of characters including ' Marcus Bannerman ' in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999 ; ' Joseph Bazalgette ' the great Victorian industrial engineer in the award winning factual drama / doc Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002 ; and ' Tom Crean ' the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh ; and ' Niven Craig ' in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It.

The discovery of populations of homo denisova cohabiting with Neandertal and homo sapiens in a cave in Siberia in 2011 raised the interesting possibility that Niven may have accurately " hindcast " a previous state of hominid behavior.

" Goddamn doctor ," Bogart later told David Niven, " instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up.

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.

* Science fiction author Larry Niven called this idea the " law of conservation of history " in an essay titled " The Theory and Practice of Time Travel ," which was published in his book " All the Myriad Ways " in 1971.

*" A Teardrop Falls ," Larry Niven, ( ss ) Omni June 1983

Brian W. Aldiss and Wingrove reported that while the imagined aliens were " fascinating creations ," the " style and characterization the weaknesses of both Niven and Pournelle.

The Pak first appeared in " The Adults ," which appeared in Galaxy in 1967 ; this story was expanded into the novel Protector by Larry Niven ( 1973 ).

" Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex " is a 1971 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in having sexual intercourse and reproducing with " a human woman designated LL for convenience ," using arguments based on humorous ( yet logical ) reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books.

Her other television appearances included two appearances on the Perry Mason episodes, " The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde ," ( 1958 ) and " The Case of the Cowardly Lion " ( 1961 ), The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( twice as June Sanders ), It's a Great Life, Frontier, The Abbott and Costello Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( as Penny in the 1960 episode " The Trench Coat ", along with David Niven and Lyle Talbot ), Leave It to Beaver, Gunsmoke ( as a duplicitous villainess trying to have her husband murdered ), Rawhide ( Season 1 / 20 as Nora Sage ), General Electric Theater, The Lone Ranger, The Untouchables ( in Season 1 as a two-timing showgirl playing opposite Cameron Mitchell ), and The Patty Duke Show.

Tate played Odile, a witch who exerts a mysterious power over a landowner, played by Niven, and his wife, played by Kerr.

In 1966, Le Mesurier portrayed Abadiah the religious sandwich man in Robert Hartford-Davis's The Sandwich Man, and had small roles in Don Sharp's Our Man in Marrakesh, Sidney Hayers's Finders Keepers and the supernatural J. Lee Thompson film Eye of the Devil, featuring Deborah Kerr and David Niven in the lead roles.

* Separate Tables, starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven

The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver.