Who is Larry Niven?
Larry Niven Biography (Taken from Grolier’s Science Fiction Encyclopedia) Working name of US writer Laurence van Cott Niven (1938- ). He was born in California, where he set many of his stories, and gained a BA in mathematics from Washburn University, Kansas. From his first publication, “The Coldest Place” for If in 1964, he set his mark on the US sf field, winning four short-fiction HUGOS, and both Hugo and NEBULA in 1971 for “Ringworld” (1970), a capstone title in his seminal Tales of Known Space sequence, which he began with “The Coldest Place” and has added to ever since. In the novels and stories of this sequence, and in some of his other work, he was seen for some time as HARD SF’s last best hope; and there can be no doubt that hard-sf writers dominant in the 1980s, like Greg BEAR, and some of those reaching for eminence in the 1990s, like Paul J. MCAULEY and Roger MacBride ALLEN, owe much to the scope of LN’s inventiveness, the sense he conveys of technological ingenuity as bein
