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Sci Fi Focus   >   Encyclopedia   >   Larry Niven   >   Known Space
Known Space is consistent background that Larry Niven uses in many of his stories and novels, including his best known work, Ringworld. The Known Space background is divided into several eras covering the near future (or rather the near future of the 1960s) to events about 1,000 years in the future.

A number of other authors have written authorized stories within the Known Space background, most of these being stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.


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Tnuctip: Fictional, Larry Niven, Known Space, Telepathy, Parabolic Mirror

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tnuctipun (singular Tnuctip) are a fictional extinct alien species in Larry Niven's Known Space series. Tnuctipun were small, arboreal pack predators, averaging about 3?4 feet long. Their heads were long and lean, and their eyes opened laterally. They were highly intelligent (average IQ estimated around 130?140, according to the short story "In the Hall of the Mountain King") and social. As befits their carnivorous nature, they were also ruthless, aggressive, and cunning. Their word for alien most closely translates to "food that talks". Two billion years before humans evolved, the galaxy was ruled by the Thrintun, who telepathically enslaved other species, including the Tnuctipun.

Kzin: Fiction, List of fictional cat-like aliens, Larry Niven, Known Space, If (magazine), The Soft Weapon, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Ringworld, Man- Kzin Wars, Kzinti Hegemony

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Kzin: Fiction, List of fictional cat-like aliens, Larry Niven, Known Space, If (magazine), The Soft Weapon, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Ringworld, Man- Kzin Wars, Kzinti Hegemony
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kzinti are a fictional, very warlike and bloodthirsty race of cat-like aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space series. The kzin were initially introduced in Niven's story "The Warriors" and "The Soft Weapon," (1967), both collected in Neutron Star (1968). A Kzin character, Speaker-to-Animals, subsequently played a major role in Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning Ringworld (1970), giving considerably more background of the Kzinti and their interactions with human civilizations. Following this, Niven gave permission to several friends to write stories taking place in the time following were collected in a number of volumes of The Man-Kzin Wars, which eventually reached twelve volumes, the first published June 1988.

Works by Larry Niven: Known Space, Known Space Alien Species, Known Space Characters, Known Space Locations, Known Space Stories, Kzinti

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Works by Larry Niven: Known Space, Known Space Alien Species, Known Space Characters, Known Space Locations, Known Space Stories, Kzinti
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Known Space, Known Space Alien Species, Known Space Characters, Known Space Locations, Known Space Stories, Kzinti, Novels by Larry Niven, Short Stories by Larry Niven, Short Story Collections by Larry Niven, Ringworld, Flash Crowd, Ringworld, the Mote in God's Eye, Beowulf Shaeffer, Man-Kzin Wars, Pierson's Puppeteers, the Legacy of Heorot, Grendel, Procrustes, Beowulf's Children, Inconstant Moon, Footfall, a Gift From Earth, Flatlander, Protector, Pak Protector, Neutron Star, Fallen Angels, the Magic Goes Away, Organlegging, Destiny's Road, the Flying Sorcerers, Dream Park, Thrint, the Integral Trees, the Borderland of Sol, a World Out of Time, Building Harlequin's Moon, the Slaver Weapon, General Products, the Smoke Ring, at the Core, Lucifer's Hammer, Inconstant Star, Hominids of the Ringworld, the Ringworld Engineers, the Burning City, Louis Wu, Inferno, World of Ptavvs, Oath of Fealty, Gil Hamilton, Bandersnatch, the Gripping Hand, Teela Brown, Elf Sternberg, the State, Speaker-To-Animals, Jinx, Downstream, Outsider, Ringworld's Children, Tnuctip, Long Shot, the Soft Weapon, Wirehead, Inconstant Moon, Rainbow Mars, Burning Tower, the Ringworld Throne, Fleet of Worlds, Escape From Hell, Rishathra, Jotoki, the Return of William Proxmire, N-Space, Grogs, Playgrounds of the Mind, Belter, Kdaptists, Crashlander, the Draco Tavern, Flatlander, Juggler of Worlds, Ulf Reichstein-Markham, the Jigsaw Man, Lucas Garner, the Defenseless Dead, Starseed, Destroyer of Worlds, the Handicapped, Tyra Nordbo, Kdatlyno, Nessus, Buford Early, Man-Kzin Wars X: the Wunder War, a Hole in Space, Flatlander, All the Myriad Ways, Peter Nordbo, Kzinti Patriarch, Scatterbrain, Convergent Series, the Descent of Anansi, the Patchwork Girl, the Hole Man, Death by Ecstasy, Lit Shaeffer, Fringe War, Limits,...

Novels by Larry Niven: Ringworld, Known Space, the Mote in God's Eye, the Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf's Children, Footfall, a Gift From Earth

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Novels by Larry Niven: Ringworld, Known Space, the Mote in God s Eye, the Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf s Children, Footfall, a Gift From Earth
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ringworld, Known Space, the Mote in God's Eye, the Legacy of Heorot, Beowulf's Children, Footfall, a Gift From Earth, Protector, Fallen Angels, the Magic Goes Away, Destiny's Road, the Flying Sorcerers, Dream Park, the Integral Trees, a World Out of Time, Building Harlequin's Moon, the Smoke Ring, Lucifer's Hammer, the Ringworld Engineers, the Burning City, Inferno, World of Ptavvs, Oath of Fealty, the Gripping Hand, Ringworld's Children, Burning Tower, the Ringworld Throne, Fleet of Worlds, Escape From Hell, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, the Descent of Anansi, the Patchwork Girl. Excerpt: A Gift From Earth A Gift From Earth is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven , first published in 1968 and set in his Known Space universe. The title of the novel was originally Slowboat Cargo . Plot summary Plateau, a colony in the Tau Ceti system, was settled by humans some 300 years before the plot begins. The colony world itself is a Venusian type planet with a dense, hot, poisonous atmosphere. It would be otherwise uninhabitable, except for a tall monolithic mesa that rises 40 miles up into a breathable layer in the upper atmosphere. This gives the planet a habitable area about half the size of California. The Captain of the first colony vessel named the feature Mount Lookatthat (from his interjection at first sight of it), and the colony became known as Plateau . After landing the slower-than-light ships, the Crew sign an agreement, called the Document of Planetfall, with their former passengers (who had just emerged from suspended animation and were in a weak bargaining position). This agreement gives the Crew (and their descendants in perpetuity) all control over the new colony. A system of medical care evolves, in which organ transplantation is the only method of treatment...

Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven

By Larry Niven

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Released: 1985-11-12
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Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...

Becalmed in hell
Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!

Wait it out
He was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!

The borderland of Sol
Forward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it!

The jigsaw man
The organ banks want you...now!

Cloak of anarchy
They were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough!

-- plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!

Three Books of Known Space

By Larry Niven

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Released: 1996-09-03
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Three Books of Known Space
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Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous future history: Known Space!
WORLD OF PTAVVS
Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the loose, and telepath Larry Greenberg knew everything he was thinking. Thrints lived to plunder and enslave lesser planets . . . and the planet Kzanol had in mind was Earth!
A GIFT FROM EARTH
Shrouded in lethal mists, the world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But still the planet had been colonized, and the settlers struggled to survive under a ruthless dictatorship on a rebellion-proof world . . . until fate dealt them a wild card named Matthew Keller, whose secret talent might just be their only hope!
TALES OF KNOWN SPACE
A classic collection of stories that traces humankind's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy from the twentieth century to the thirty-first . . .
AND MORE: Larry Niven's latest thoughts on the evolution--both creative and "historical"--of known space, as well as an updated Timeline of Known Space and a complete Niven bibliography!

The World of Ptavvs (Tales of Known Space)

By Larry Niven

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Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. But when Larry's mind is taken over by an alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...

A Gift from Earth (Tales of Known Space)

By Larry Niven

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A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs, and from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them alive.

Tales of Known Space

By Larry Niven

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