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Overview: Laurence van Cott Niven’s best known work is Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven’s main strengths.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Achilles’ Choice
The Olympiad is for those with enough confidence in their own abilities to risk everything—even death. That peculiar, uncoachable capacity for confidence produces champions. Enables a human being to put everything on the line. That’s one definition of a “warrior,” isn’t it? We don’t have wars anymore. But some people still need, and want, to test themselves against the very best. I know you are one of those people, Jillian, or you wouldn’t be here. To those who risk much, much will be given.
Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Eleventh Olympiad. She and her competitors were the best and brightest, three thousand of the finest minds and bodies that had ever strode the planet. Yet within a few short years, ninety-eight percent of them would be dead. Only a handful would survive to take their place among Earth’s ruling elite. The rulers of the 21st century had created a nearly perfect system of government: A world free from war, disease, and want, dominated by global corporations, managed by omniscient artificial intelligences. And they’d created a nearly perfect system for selecting its future leaders: A new kind of Olympics that tested the mind as well as the body. To win this coveted prize, the athletes used the most advanced technique available to medicine: The Boost, an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength—at a terrible price…
Once Boosted, there followed burnout. The mind and body suffered mental and physical disintegration—and death—in just a few short years. The only way to halt the effects of the Boost was connection to the Link, the global information network that sustained the world. And only those who won received the Link. Few had ever dared to question the workings of the system. None who had questioned survived. Jillian Shomer dared. One fearless, unpredictable American refused to give up her humanity. Pitting faith and raw courage against awesome technological might, one woman risked her life to defy the godlike power of Earth’s masters.
The Draco Tavern
Bartender Rick Shumann at his Siberian tavern catering to aliens, narrates 26 tales include:
"The Subject Is Closed" Could AI stop working on life after death because subject solved?
"Table Manners" Is Rick hunter or hunted by five Folk aliens?
"Losing Mars" Unpublished. Aliens on Mars angry humans forget their planet.
The Flight of the Horse
‘We don’t know where on Earth you’ll wind up,’ Ra Chen had told him.
And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn’t know precisely when, either. All he knew was that Haville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.
But when he returns, Hanville Svetz won’t be alone. If his mission is successful he will be accompanied by a creature long extinct — a spectacular birthday present for the Secretary-General. His only hope is a picture from a children’s book. A picture of a horse.
And so begins the first incredible adventure in time of Hanville Svetz.
The Goliath Stone (with Matthew Joseph Harrington)
A visionary new tale from Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington
The year is 2052 and Dr. Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer’s controversial nanites are living things—a new form of life—and they have more uses than just medical. They also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the wealth of asteroids…if he can control them.
Unfortunately, as every parent learns, when you produce a new, thinking being, the plans it makes are not necessarily your plans. And when a two-hundred gigaton asteroid that rivals the rock that felled the dinosaurs is hurtling toward Earth on a collision course, you don’t have time to argue. Will Glyer’s nanites be Earth’s salvation or destruction?
Red Tide (with Brad R. Torgersen, Matthew J. Harrington)
Loosely based on Larry Niven’s 1973 novella "Flash Crowd," Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences of the impact of having instantaneous teleportation, where humans can instantly travel long distances in milliseconds.
This is a theme that has fascinated the author throughout his career and even appears in his seminal work Ringworld, where the central character celebrates his birthday by instantly teleporting himself to different time zones, extending his birthday. The author also discusses the impact of such instantaneous transportation in his essay, "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation."
Larry Niven is joined by two younger writers, Brad R. Torgersen and Matthew J. Harrington, as they take on this challenging idea and further develop the theories and concepts that Niven originally presented in "Flash Crowd."
The Seascape Tattoo (with Steven Barnes)
The Seascape Tattoo: the latest spellbinding adventure in Larry Niven’s acclaimed collaborations with Steven Barnes!
Aros of Azteca and Neoloth-Pteor are the deadliest of enemies: Swordsman and Sorcerer, locked in mortal combat, who have tried to kill each other more times than either can count. But when the princess Neoloth loves is kidnapped, there is only one plan that offers any hope of rescue . . . and that requires passing off the barbarian Aros as a lost princeling and infiltrating the deadliest cabal of necromancers the world has ever seen. They cannot trust each other. They will betray or kill each other the first chance they get. But they’re all each other has.
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