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Three Books of Known Space By Larry Niven Del Rey Released: 1996-09-03 Paperback (592 pages) List Price: $18.00* Lowest New Price: $11.01* Lowest Used Price: $0.17* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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!

Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven By Larry Niven Del Rey Released: 1985-11-12 Mass Market Paperback (240 pages) List Price: $5.99* Lowest New Price: $74.99* Lowest Used Price: $1.22* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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!

Flatlander (Known Space) By Larry Niven Del Rey Released: 2009-02-25 Kindle Edition (372 pages) List Price: $7.99* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate, his detective skills second to none, and his psychic powers -- esper sense and telekinesis -- were awesome. Now you can read all the classic stories of the legendary ARM operative, collected in one volume for the first time -- plus, an all-new, never-before-published Gil Hamilton adventure! From the Paperback edition.

World of Ptavvs (Tales of Known Space) By Larry Niven Orbit Paperback (192 pages) Lowest New Price: $20.69* Lowest Used Price: $6.47* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: 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...

The Ringworld Engineers By Larry Niven Del Rey Released: 1985-11-12 Mass Market Paperback (368 pages) List Price: $7.99* Lowest New Price: $3.86* Lowest Used Price: $0.01* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: "This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults

The Integral Trees (Known Space Series, Book 1)(Library Edition) By Larry Niven Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audio Cassette List Price: $44.95* Lowest New Price: $28.32* Lowest Used Price: $11.98* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Pat Bottino] Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline prepared for a routine colonization assignment. What they weren't prepared for was the smoke ring: an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When the Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop, remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, the Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.

The Integral Trees (Known Space Series, Book 1) By Larry Niven Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audio CD List Price: $29.95* Lowest New Price: $29.95* Not yet published* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Pat Bottino] Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline prepared for a routine colonization assignment. What they weren't prepared for was the smoke ring: an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When the Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop, remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, the Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.

The Integral Trees (Known Space Series, Book 1)(Library Edition) By Larry Niven Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audio CD List Price: $76.00* Lowest New Price: $76.00* Not yet published* *(As of 17:00 Pacific 6 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Pat Bottino] Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline prepared for a routine colonization assignment. What they weren't prepared for was the smoke ring: an immense, gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When the Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop, remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, the Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.