The Draco Tavern

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429914084
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Draco Tavern written by Larry Niven and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume. When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann established a tavern catering to all of various species of visiting aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern. This collection includes: "The Subject Is Closed": A priest visits the tavern and goes one-on-one with a chirpsithra alien on the subject of God and life after death. "Table Mannners: A Folk Tale": Rick Schumann is invited to hunt with five folk aliens, but he's not quite sure what their hunt entails, or if he will be the hunted. "Wisdom of Demons": The age-old question of wisdom vs. knowledge is asked when Rick is confronted by a human who has been granted the wisdom of an individual gligstith(click)optok alien. "Losing Mars" in this unpublished tale, a group of aliens who call Mars and its moon home, arrive at the Tavern only to find that humans have mostly forgotten about their neighboring planet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345314109
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convergent Series written by Larry Niven and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1983 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765318244
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book N-Space written by Larry Niven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retrospective collection of stories from all phases of Niven's writing career is rich with gossip, storytelling vigor, and sheer science-fictional play.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765340474
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scatterbrain written by Larry Niven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another dazzling collection of fact, fiction, and wit from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning master of hard science fiction! Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic science fiction novels as Ringworld and Destiny's Road. His previous collection, N-Space, was lauded by the Houston Post as "outstanding . . . hours of entertainment," while Publishers Weekly called it "a must for science fiction fans." A follow-up volume, Playgrounds of the Mind, was similarly praised by Kirkus Reviews: "An abundance of Niven's curious yet disciplined inventiveness and his fun-filled knack for turning seemingly absurd notions into credible, absorbing fiction. Grand entertainment." Now, ten years later, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Niven's latest work, all in one captivating volume. Here are choice excerpts from several of his most recent novels, including his upcoming Ringworld's Child and Rainbow Mars, as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, interviews, editorials, collaborations, and correspondence. True to its title, Scatterbrain roams all over a wide variety of fascinating topics, featuring Niven's singular insights into everything from space stations to convention etiquette. So give yourself a treat, and feel free to pick the brain-or Scatterbrain-of one of modern science fiction's most fascinating thinkers.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
ISBN 13 : 9781612420691
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limits written by Larry Niven and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2012 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Ballantine, c1985.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780708880685
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Known Space written by Larry Niven and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429988223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bowl of Heaven written by Gregory Benford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Anna Faktorovich
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474130
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formulas of Popular Fiction written by Anna Faktorovich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.g., authors Heyer, Cartland, Woodiwiss and Roberts), religious and inspirational (Corelli and Douglas), mystery and detective (Conan Doyle, Christie and Mankell), and science fiction, horror and fantasy (Wells, Tolkien, Orwell, Niven, King and Rowling). Chapters look at a genre from its roots to its most recent works. The structural patterns in the plot, characters and setting of these genres are then explained. The book also provides a critique of currently popular hyper-formulaic, hack, unliterary writings that have multiplied in recent decades. Special topics such as the publishing oligopoly and the resulting homogeneity among bestselling works and the steady movement from literary to unliterary fiction are also examined.

Author : Robert L. Forward
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0307779300
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon's Egg written by Robert L. Forward and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers. Praise for Dragon’s Egg “Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov “Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven “This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert “Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson “Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post

Author : Hal Colebatch
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1625792816
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure Planet written by Hal Colebatch and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling stand-alone novel addition to the long-running, popular Man-Kzin Wars series created by New York Times multiple best seller, Larry Niven. “Ah, the wealth o’ the treasure planet be beyond the dreams of Man or the hopes o’ Kzin!” On Wunderland, a generation after Liberation, memories of the bloody kzin conquest and Occupation have faded, and men and kzin live largely in peace. But the fabulous treasure of the kzin pirates, hidden on a distant world, remains a magnet for freebooters. Young Peter Cartwright and his kzinrett friend Marthar receive information and map from a most unlikely source and soon themselves fighting the most ruthless pirates in Known Space for an unimaginable prize. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About the Man-Kzin War Series: “[The Man-Kzin Wars series is] excellent . . .gripping . . .and expands well on Larry Niven’s universe. . . .” –Locus