A Hole In Space

Stories from science fiction's master storyteller, including "Rammer", "A Hole in Space", "The Fourth Profession" and the Louis Wu story "There Is a Tide", as well as a discussion of non-planetary structures for human habitation (including the Ringworld) called "Bigger Than Worlds."


"His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive.  Niven is a true master!" 

- Frederik Pohl

 

"Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction." 

- Mike Resnick

 

"Our premier hard SF writer." 

- The Baltimore Sun

 

"Niven...lifts the reader far from the conventional world -- and does it with dash." 

- The Los Angeles Times

 

"Niven...juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one else can lift."  

- Charles Sheffield

 

"In creating a geologic world and in the interactions between humans and aliens, Niven is superb." 

- Boston Sunday Globe

 

"One of the genre's most prolific and accessible talents." 

- Library Journal


"The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can." 

- Tom Clancy