The Jigsaw Man (1967)
At the Bottom of a Hole (1966)
Intent to Deceive (1968)+
Cloak of Anarchy (1972)
The Warriors (1966)
The Borderland of Sol (1975)
There is a Tide (1968)
Safe at Any Speed (1967)
A7. The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton, Ballantine, February 1976
Death by Ecstasy (1969)
The Defenseless Dead (1973)
ARM (1975)
+ Title changed for novelization or appearance in a collection;
see "Title Changes," above.
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NOVELS
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Nl. World of Ptavvs, Ballantine, August 1968; a shorter version, "World of Ptavvs," appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, March 1965; Known Space.
N2. A Gift from Earth, Ballantine, September 1968; originally appeared as Slowbout Cargo In Galaxy, February, March, and April 1968; Known Space.
N3. Ringworld, Ballantine, October 1970; original book publication, no serialization; Known Space.
N4. The Flying Sorcerers (w. David Gerrold), Ballantine, August 1971; originally appeared as "The Misspelled Magishun" in Worlds of f, May-July 1970, not part of a series.
N5. Protector, Ballantine, September 1973, the first half, of the novel, "Phssthpok" appeared as "The Adults" in Galaxy, June 1967; Known Space.
N6. The Mote in God's Eye (w. Jerry Pournelle), Simon and Schuster, October 1974; original book publication, no serialization; not part of a series.
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About the Cover of ╥KNOWN SPACE╙
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THE COLORED BAUBLES set against the background of a spiral galaxy represent some of the stars closest to our sun, the G-type star Sol. Many of them are the settings for stories Larry Niven has written dealing with a thirty-light year diameter volume of the sky called Known Space.
Readers already familiar with the Known Space series will immediately recognize names such as Wunderland, Down, and Jinx as but a few of the fascinating and sometimes dangerous planets on and around which space-faring man has travelled..
The story of how the cover illustration came about is interesting in that it combined the talents of people in three different disciplines, all working in the field of science fiction: the author, editor, and art director; the artist; and a particular group of intelligent readers in Boston, Massachusetts; who have been busily cataloging everything in Known Space.
After a preliminary sketch of the galaxy was approved, I set out to try to render the local star group.
When I approached James L. Burrows, a member of the New England Science Fiction Association who is conversant with computers, he had, not surprisingly, already written a program to produce the position map. What the computer gave him were the coordinates for the stars on a two-dimensional grid, as though viewed from roughly sixty- three degrees above the plane of the Milky Way. He put it simply: "Imagine traveling in space along the Earth's--pointed at the North Star--and looking back past the sun from a great many light years. This is what you'd see."
Just how big would Known Space be in this view of the galaxy?
Obviously the brightly painted stars in the foreground are part of an enlarged picture of the local neighborhood. If the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across, then, at the size of a paperback cover, all of Known Space is a pinpoint .001"--a thousandth of an inch-- from edge to edge.
One of the rewards of my kind of work is that I can add things to paintings that are visible on the original board, but not always in the reproduced version. Or are they?
