Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer.
15 Facts About Larry Niven
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Larry Niven's work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics.
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Larry Niven's fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, works of rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.
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Larry Niven is a great-grandson of Edward L Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892, and was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal.
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Larry Niven briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1962.
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Larry Niven completed a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Larry Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place".
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Algis Budrys said in 1968 that Larry Niven becoming a top writer despite the New Wave was evidence that "trends are for second-raters".
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Larry Niven won the same award in 1972, for "Inconstant Moon", and in 1975 for "The Hole Man".
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Larry Niven frequently collaborated with Jerry Pournelle; they wrote nine novels together, including The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer and Footfall.
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Larry Niven has written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern, including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect.
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The Ringworld series is part of the Tales of Known Space, and Larry Niven has shared the setting with other writers since a 1988 anthology, The Man-Kzin Wars.
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Larry Niven has written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called mana to power a rule-based "technological" magic.
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One of Larry Niven's best known humorous works is "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex", in which he uses real-world physics to underline the difficulties of Superman and a human woman mating.
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In 1968 Larry Niven signed an advertisement in Galaxy Science Fiction in support for continued US involvement in the Vietnam War.