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Laurence van Cott Niven è un autore di fantascienza statunitense, conosciuto soprattutto per I burattinai , romanzo per cui ha ricevuto i premi Hugo, Nebula e Locus.

Niven è autore di numerosi racconti e romanzi di fantascienza a partire dal 1964 con la storia "The Coldest Place", ambientata sul lato oscuro di Mercurio.

Ha scritto inoltre per vari serial televisivi di fantascienza, compresa la serie originale Land of the Lost e alcuni degli episodi di Star Trek: la serie animata. Una delle sue storie brevi, "Inconstant Moon", è stata poi riadattata per un episodio della serie The Outer Limits; ha anche scritto per i fumetti una storia incentrata sulla Lanterna Verde più amata, Hal Jordan: La storia di Ganthet disegnata da John Byrne.

Molte delle storie di Niven sono ambientate nel cosiddetto universo dello Spazio conosciuto. Un universo in cui l'umanità è distribuita su numerosi sistemi planetari alieni alla periferia del sistema solare, abitati da più di una dozzina di specie extraterrestri, inclusi gli Kzinti e i Burattinai; razze spesso centrali nelle opere di Niven. La trilogia di Ringworld è ambientata nello spazio conosciuto.

Niven ha scritto anche serie fantasy ambientate nell'era dei Warlock, come "The Magic Goes Away".

Negli ultimi anni ha scritto spesso in collaborazione con Jerry Pournelle e/o Steven Barnes.

C'è chi pensa che i numeri di Niven possano essere stati chiamati così in suo onore, ma a dispetto della sua popolarità, tali numeri sono stati chiamati così per Ivan M. Niven. Wikipedia  

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Larry Niven Frasi e Citazioni

“Rip. “Velcro.”

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Bowl of Heaven

Larry Niven: Frasi in inglese

“Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?”

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Larry Niven libro A Relic of the Empire

Origine: Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968), A Relic of the Empire (p. 43)

“I'd thought my way into this mess. I should be able to think my way out, shouldn't I?”

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Larry Niven libro Convergent Series

Origine: Short fiction, Convergent Series (1979), Convergent Series (p. 103)

“The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.”

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Larry Niven libro The Legacy of Heorot

Origine: The Legacy of Heorot (1987), Chapter 22 “The Last Grendel” (p. 231; quoting William James)

“Sometimes you just have to be satisfied with what you are.”

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Larry Niven libro The Legacy of Heorot

Origine: The Legacy of Heorot (1987), Chapter 7 “The Blind” (p. 91)

“It doesn’t take brains to mate!”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

The Alien in Our Minds (p. 642)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Origine: Madness Has Its Place (p. 568)

“A sapient species doesn’t reach space unless the members learn to cooperate. They’ll wreck the environment, one way or another, war or straight libertarianism or overbreeding.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Origine: Madness Has Its Place (p. 561)

“There aren’t many prizes for second place in battle.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Building the Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (p. 466)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Building the Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (p. 442)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“You don’t stop planning just because there’s no hope.”

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Larry Niven libro Inconstant Moon

Inconstant Moon (p. 260)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

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Larry Niven libro All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“In fantasy, more than in other forms of literature, the obligation is to teach something universally true about the human condition.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Introduction to All the Myriad Ways (p. 71)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“It takes a lot of people to hold civilization together; some of us are only here to ask the right questions.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (p. 32)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“Nuclear is the safest power source we’ve got—with two exceptions, neither of which is being built. If some folk are terrified of unseen death by radiation, then let ’em deal with their own neuroses, instead of forcing us to stop building the atomic plants.”

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Larry Niven libro N-Space

Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 31-32)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.”

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Larry Niven libro Dream Park

Origine: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)

“I am Yali, and I would like to welcome you to Heaven. I hope you will enjoy your stay.”

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Larry Niven libro Dream Park

He laughed heartily, as at a private joke. “Yes, I most certainly hope you do. After all, some of you may stay forever. It is a nice place, actually, one of those infinitely rare situations where one is rewarded commensurately to one’s efforts. Surely that is Heaven by any man’s definition?”
Origine: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 19, “Neck Riddles” (p. 258)

“The Gamers are so out of touch with reality that they were never considered a serious threat.”

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Larry Niven libro Dream Park

Origine: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 10, “Neutral Scent” (p. 140)

“There’s a fine line between sensible emotional restraint, and the withdrawal symptoms of a stimulus junkie denied her fix.”

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Larry Niven libro Dream Park

Origine: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 2, “A Stroll Through Old Los Angeles” (p. 13)

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