* 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.

" 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.

Another character, " Eccar the Man ", is mentioned in the Niven / Gerrold collaboration The Flying Sorcerers.

Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938 ) is an American science fiction author.

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

Niven is a great-grandson of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, an important figure in the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s.

Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story " The Coldest Place ".

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

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.

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 ".

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

" Ringworld ", or more formally, " Niven ring ", has become a generic term for such a structure, which is an example of what science fiction fans call a " Big Dumb Object ", or more formally a megastructure.

The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available.

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.

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.

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is " Laurence van Cott Niven ".

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond visits an exclusive ski resort in Switzerland where he is told that David Niven is a frequent visitor and in You Only Live Twice, David Niven is referred to as the only real gentleman in Hollywood.

A 1981 interview on Michael Parkinson's talk show alarmed family and friends ; viewers wondered if Niven had either been drinking or suffered a stroke.

* Fallen Angels, nearly everybody who assists the effort to return the " angels " ( astronauts ) to orbit is either a well-known fan ( Jenny Trout = filksinger, author, and political activist Leslie Fish ), a friend of Niven & Pournelle ( Dan Forrester = Dan Alderson ), or somebody who paid ( through donation to a fan charity ) for the privilege of appearing in the book.

" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.

: Niven himself wrote little about the Man-Kzin Wars, although many of his stories refer to them having taken place in the past.

Niven does not make assumptions about its strength, but imagines that small blobs of it could be artificially created under pressure, and their instability overcome by containing them in Slaver stasis fields.

Niven was " endlessly teased " about this error, which he corrected in subsequent printings to show Wu teleporting westward.

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.

The Bishop's Wife ( 1947 ) is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.

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.

Wasco is featured in the book Lucifer's Hammer written by Larry Niven, which is about the end of the world after a comet hits the earth.

** Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, an essay about Superman's sexuality by Larry Niven

** Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, an essay about Superman's sexuality by Larry Niven

Niven says there will not be more stories from this time: " Stories about infinitely lucky people tend to be dull.

The film was " conceived as a sophisticated comedy about a charming, urbane jewel thief, Sir Charles Lytton " ( played by Niven ); Peter Ustinov was " originally cast as Clouseau, with Ava Gardner as his faithless wife in league with Lytton.

* In the Ringworld series by Larry Niven, a ring a million miles wide is built and spun ( for gravity ) around a star roughly one astronomical unit away.

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.

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.

I found it where they told me I would, but it was among 27, 000 others, and I told myself that here, Niven, were 27, 000 reasons why you should keep your mouth shut after the war.

In the history of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, some of the estates on Cap Ferrat have hosted a plethora of celebrities among others: King Leopold II of Belgium, Baroness de Rothschild, Charlie Chaplin, Rainier III, David Niven, Somerset Maugham, Jean Cocteau, Lady Kenmare and Roderick Cameron, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Pierre and Sao Schlumberger, Hubert de Givenchy, Rachel Lambert Mellon, Mary Wells Lawrence, Isadora Duncan, Winston Churchill, French Prime Ministers Maurice Rouvier and Raymond Barre and many more.

The term is among the fannish expressions used most extensively in the book Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, whose major protagonists are mostly fans ( active, covert, gafiated or fafiated ).

Niven fixed these errors in his sequel The Ringworld Engineers, and noted them in the foreword.

McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but ideas drawn from them were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman and Dean Koontz.

About to lead his men into action, Niven eased their nervousness by telling them, " Look, you chaps only have to do this once.

Larry Niven used them in Flatlander.

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In the scifi novel The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, the Watchmakers are a small technologically intelligent sub-species of the Moties that will repair / improve things left for them ( accompanied by food as payment ).

When Jagger and Bowie asked Launer to write a screenplay for them, Launer suggested they do a remake of the movie Bedtime Story, which originally starred David Niven and Marlon Brando.

They moved their planet further from their sun, to lessen the effects of global warming, but overindustrialisation forced them to move four of the other planets in their system closer to their world and terraform them into " farming worlds ", arranging the five planets into a Klemperer rosette ( though Niven misspelled " Klemperer " as " Kemplerer ").

During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, ( David Niven ), who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French noblemen from the guillotine and take them across the English Channel to safety.

Niven ’ s laws were named after science fiction author Larry Niven, who has periodically published them as " how the Universe works " as far as he can tell.