This page lists the short stories and articles written by Larry Niven (including collaborative works), which have been published and arranged by anthologies and compendia. It is incomplete and work on updating it is continuing. The number in brackets after the title is the "opus #", taken from the bibliography originally published in N-Space and later, updated, in Bridging the Galaxies. This latter source is also now out of date, and it is hoped to establish a means for updating the bibliography.

There is a complete bibliography of Larry Niven's short stories and articles, which is sortable and can be filted. It is available on the bibliography page. We are working on providing links to the content of the site (reviews and such) in the bibliography.


All the Myriad Ways

Many of the stories listed in this collection have since been published elsewhere. This is out of print, but may be is usually available used via amazon.com.

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Bridging the Galaxies

Illustrated by Alicia Austin, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Inc. 1993. A special publication for ConFrancisco, the 51st World Science Fiction Convention at which Larry Niven and Alicia Austin were Honoured Guests. It is extremely rare. Ted Scribner proudly owns a copy, and what's more has it signed by the Author, Mr. Niven.

Very Rare, but sometimes seen on amazon.com as a used book. Click the book cover to check availability.


Convergent Series, Ballantine, 1979. (#113)

In the introduction to this volume of some of Larry's older works, he mentions that the anthology The Shape of Space is now very difficult to find, having been out of print for many years. Many of the stories originally published in that collection can also be found in this book, and they are well worth a read. There are no real Known Space stories in the collection, and in fact the settings and styles are very diverse, but the overall readability is excellent and this collection is highly recommended. One thing I really enjoyed was seeing Larry write short stories right outside the SF/Fantasy genre - and write very, very well (The Deadlier Weapon). This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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Crashlander

This collection contains all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories and has a lot of background to other, later stories, including Ringworld. This is an excellent book and I can really recommend it. All but two of the stories have appeared previously in Neutron Star (check our page with the review and comments on Neutron Star by Isaac Asimov). However this book also contains some new material which draws the five older stories into a more consistent (although at times confusing) narrative. The new story, Procrustes (previously published only in the comparatively rare Bridging the Galaxies) contains the ultimate use of the ultimate autodoc!



The Draco Tavern,Tor, 2006

After humanities' first contact with the advanced alien race called the Chirpsithtra, Rich Schumann invested in a bar, not a normal bar mind you, the bar was built at Mount Forel Spaceport and served as a mecca for wandering spacemen and aliens alike.

Chirpsithtra come to drink in the bar together with lots of other alien races. Humans come to drink at the bar to see the aliens and to do business with the aliens. Think of the Draco Tavern as a kind of Mos Eisley Cantina, but a little more up market. After all: drinks cost twenty bucks a shot.

Larry Niven has collected twenty seven stories set in the universe of the Draco Tavern, in this great collection, including six new stories. This volume is a must. Highly recommended.



Flatlander,Del Rey, June 1995

This book brings together the four Gil Hamilton stories previously published separately, as in Patchwork Girl, or in The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (#88) see below. This is a great collection - SF detective stories at their best.


The Flight of the Horse, Ballantine, June 1971. (#64).

This collection contains one pseudo-Known Space story, Flash Crowd, but it is a really good one. The story explores the problems encountered by society with the advent of cheap and widespread teleportation used for public transport. The other stories are all concerned with Niven's unique perspective on time travel, except for the last story which is set in the same fantasy setting as The Magic Goes Away.

This collection also serves as a backdrop for Rainbow Mars and in some editions of Rainbow Mars the stories listed right are included as a freebie bonus - just as well because the original collection is out of print, This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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Hole in Space, A Ballantine, 1974.

This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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Inconstant Moon, Sphere (UK edition), 1973.

This book starts with the title story "Inconstant Moon" and this particular story was filmed as an episode of The Outer Limits.  The SCI FI Com website may list when this is next going to air on their network near you.

This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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Limits, Del Rey, February 1985. (#151)

This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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TheLong ARM of Gil Hamilton, Ballantine, February 1976. (#88)

Three SF detective stories featuring Gil Hamilton, the cop with the invisible arm. Although this title is out of print, each of these stories was later published in the Flatlander collection which was published in 1995 and is, therefore still in print.

This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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N-Space, Tor Books, September 1990. (#173)

This is a collection of stories from a variety of timelines and some stories from no timeline. There are a few Known Space stories and some excerpts from Known Space novels. There is some other stuff like Niven's Laws and Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. Other material includes anecdotes about Larry Niven by various other authors such as Steve Barnes and Frederick Pohl.

Duncan had two main reservations about this book. The first had nothing to do with the material: the Tor Books copy that he got split down the spine after four days. A week later the cover came off as well. He didn't mind cheap paperbacks but structural integrity is fairly important to him because he likes to keep books for a long time and re-read them if he really like them so this rather pissed him off. I [Ted Scribner] have an Orbit (British) edition which seems rather more durable than by implication the Tor edition (at least the one Duncan got hold of) is. The other reservation Duncan had is the material; this, he says, is really a book for diehard fans. There's a lot of good background, and good introductions to material other than the Known Space stuff, but some of it is a little dull. Some parts are very useful, for example a very complete bibliography of Larry Niven, up to about the end of 1990.

Duncan's recommendation is to buy this book only to complete your collection or if you do have a special interest. I [Ted Scribner] would not take such a hard line; I think that it is a good compilation and that there are plenty of reasons to buy it, over and above special interests and completing collections.


Neutron Star, Ballantine, April 1968. (#26)

Check our page with the review and comments by Isaac Asimov.


Niven's Laws, Owlswick Press

Published for the Philadelphisa Science Fiction Society, 1984. This, like Bridging the Galaxies was a special publication for a Science Fiction Convention, in this case PhilCon, 1984. The image to the right is the title page of this book which Carol Phillips got Larry to sign as a present for Ted.

Very Rare, but sometimes seen on amazon.com as a used book. Click the book cover to check availability.


Playgrounds of the Mind, Tor Books, October 1991. (#178)

This book is more or less a sequel to N-Space. Like N-Space, there is not much here that isn't published elsewhere. It contains short stories, exerpts from novels (some collaborative), essays and anecdotes. The significance of the title is a reference to the notion that creative sf writers such as Larry Niven make future universes and populate them with characters, human and alien, of their own devising. People come after and fiddle around with the lives and deeds of these and other characters, some tacking on annexes to the universe, others adding new alien species. This is analagous to playing in someone else's playground. It is quite OK if you comply with the rules of the owner, and Larry Niven's playground is his under the terms of copyright laws. So popular has it become, however, that it has been opened up to a limited extent for other authors to make their own creations and these have been published in the Man-Kzin Wars series (now numbering eight plus a "best of"), The Magic May Return and More Magic. I have not tested my copy to the extent that Duncan tested his copy of N-Space, so I can't report on its mechanical stability or otherwise. It was a present from a dear friend and is signed by the author, so I [Ted Scribner] treat it carefully.


Scatterbrain, Tor, August 2003

Overall, pretty much a round up of Larry's short stories and articles which have been published in recent years. Great for the Niven fans who managed to miss an issue of Analog, or Asimov and missed a new Niven short story. Several of the stories were new to me too!! [Nesssus]

When compiling this anthology, Tor discovered that they had way too much material, so expect a second volume - provisionally entitled Scatterbrain II - to be published next year.

For a short summary of the individual stories - please see this Review Page


The Shape of Space, Ballantine, September 1969. (#40).

Most of these works were later republished as The Convergent Series.

Thank you to Dan Dykstra for the cover scan of this rare volume on the left

This collection is currently out of print but is usually from www.amazon.com used.

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Tales of Known Space, Ballantine, August 1975. (#84)

This collection is an invaluable guide to the entire assortment of Known Space stories and novels. Not only does it include short stories set from our present time through to far in the future, but it also includes various general information supplied by the author and a timeline which fits all of the stories into a chronology of future history, with the major social, political and technological developments also indicated.


Three Books of Known Space, Del Rey, September 1996.

This collection contains not only all the short stories from Tales of Known Space but also has the short novels World of Ptavvs and A Gift From Earth thrown in free too.  Good value for money.


Time of the Warlock, 1984.

A collection of Larry's Sword and Sorcery stories including the Novel, The Magic Goes Away.

Very Rare, but sometimes seen on amazon.com as a used book. Click the book cover to check availability.