Three Books of Known Space

Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous future history: Known Space!


World of Ptavvs

Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and telepath Larry Greenberg knew everything he was thinking. Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets . . . and the planet Kzanol had in mind was Earth!


A Gift from Earth

Shrouded in lethal mists, the world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But still the planet had been colonized, and the settlers struggled to survive under a ruthless dictatorship on a rebellion-proof world . . . until fate dealt them a wild card named Matthew Keller, whose secret talent might just be their only hope!


Tales of Known Space

A classic collection of stories that traces humankind's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy from the twentieth century to the thirty-first . . .


And more: Larry Niven's latest thoughts on the evolution--both creative and "historical"--of known space, as well as an updated Timeline of Known Space and a complete Niven bibliography!


"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


About Larry Niven:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.