Comments on: A new book…

By: Ted Scribner

Ted Scribner — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:17:49 +0000

Larry and Marilyn are signed up for Aussiecon 4 but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be there. The proximity to release of this collection would be an encouragement but only if someone can guarantee that books will be available at bookshops at the time of Aussiecon 4. Larry has on two occasions been planning on going to sf bookshops in Australia to sign copies of books only to find that due to a dock strike or some bureaucratic delay, the books didn’t show up.

As a co-webmanager of http://www.larryniven.org and a moderator of the mail list http://www.larryniven-l.org I am much involved in his fandom and if anything needs doing to make sure that book is available (assuming it’s in the bookshops by then) I’ll attempt to do it.

By: Tom Dean

Tom Dean — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:57:37 +0000

Jonathan,

Before I forget, thanks again for signing those books for me at Denvention!

Here are some Niven stories that I think deserve consideration. I’ve tried to limit myself on the Beowulf Shaeffer and Gil Hamilton stories:

“Becalmed in Hell [*Known Space],” (ss) F&SF July 1965
“The Warriors [*Known Space: Kzin],” (ss) If Feb. 1966
“Neutron Star [*Known Space: Beowulf Shaeffer],” (nv) If Oct. 1966
“The Jigsaw Man [*Known Space],” (ss) Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday 1967
“The Deadlier Weapon,” (ss) EQMM June 1968
“Death by Ecstasy [*Known Space: Gil Hamilton],” (na) Galaxy Jan. 1969 {a.k.a. “The Organleggers”}
“Not Long Before the End [*mana],” (ss) F&SF April 1969
“Inconstant Moon,”(nv) All the Myriad Ways, Ballantine 1971
“The Fourth Profession,” (nv) Quark #4, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Popular Library 1971
“Rammer [*Jerome Corbell],” (nv) Galaxy Nov. 1971
“Cloak of Anarchy [*Known Space],” (ss) Analog March 1972
“The Hole Man,” (ss) Analog Jan. 1974
“The Borderland of Sol [*Known Space: Beowulf Shaeffer],” (nv) Analog Jan. 1975
“A Teardrop Falls [*Berserkers],” (ss) Omni June 1983 / Berserker Base, Tor 1985; this might just be my favorite Niven story of all.
“The Return of William Proxmire,” (ss) What Might Have Been, Volume 1, ed. Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1989
“Madness Has Its Place [*Known Space: Kzin],” (nv) Asimov’s June 1990

Best Regards,
Tom Dean

By: Grant Watson

Grant Watson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:13:59 +0000

For some reason I have never got around to reading any Larry Niven – unless it was when I was a kid, I voraciously read every SF anthology and collection I could find between the ages of 7 and 12, and to this day keep picking up ancient SF classics to finally read and discovering I already knew what happened.

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:49:23 +0000

That is so exciting! I’ll definitely be ordering this one. I have a special fondness for Niven since his was the first non-Star Wars science fiction that I ever bought for myself in a proper bookstore when I was a kid…A World Out of Time. I still love that book. I’ve just read Ringworld for the first time a few months ago and am really fond of Niven’s Draco Tavern short stories. I cannot wait to see what you will pick and look forward to this collection being my gateway to more Larry Niven goodness!

By: Chris McClelland

Chris McClelland — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:46:58 +0000

I’ll add this to the list of books to get in 2010. Those SubPress guys are taking a lot of my money lately. They’re a great publisher.

By: Edward Milewski

Edward Milewski — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:04:20 +0000

This sounds like an interesting project.I haven’t read all that much Niven, but the two stories that stand out in my mind from when I first read them,oh so long ago, would be: Inconstant Moon and I think the other was called The Fourth Profession from something called Quark # 4.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:43:08 +0000

That’s a pretty good list, BT.

Some other suggestions (I cut my teeth early on Niven)…

What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?
Bordered in Black
What Good is a Glass Dagger?
Limits
The Soft Weapon
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
The Tale of Jinni and her sisters
The Green Marauder
The Meddler

By: Blue Tyson

Blue Tyson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:24:15 +0000

SF-S-4.5 Niven, Larry : All the Myriad Ways
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Breeding Maze
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Cloak Of Anarchy – FREE
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Down In Flames – FREE
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Flash Crowd
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Handicap
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : The Handicapped
SF-C-4.0 Niven, Larry : A Hole In Space
SU-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : In the Cellar – FREE
SF-S-4.5 Niven, Larry : Inconstant Moon
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : The Jigsaw Man
SH-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : The Last Necronomicon – FREE
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Neutron Star – FREE
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Night On Mispec Moor – FREE
SO-S-4.5 Niven, Larry : Not Long Before the End
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Playhouse
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : Singularities Make Me Nervous – FREE
SF-S-4.0 Niven, Larry : There Is A Tide

Dunno if you want team-up stories, but there’s a few of those, too.