Larry Niven - Author

CONvergence is pleased to welcome author Larry Niven as a Guest of Honor at CONvergence 2004.

Larry Niven started writing in the 1960s and is now considered one of the grand masters of hard science fiction. Niven is probably best known for his "Known Space" future history, which to date contains over 30 short stories and novels, which intermingle into a complex timeline dating from several billion years into prehistory into the fantastic future world of 3200 and beyond.

Perhaps the most famous of the Known Space titles is Ringworld, which earned Niven both the Hugo and the Nebula awards in 1970 and the Australian Ditmar Award in 1972. Other solo novels outside of the Known Space cannon include A World Out of Time (1976), The Magic Goes Away (1977), and The Integral Trees (1984).

In addition to his Hugo and Nebula Awards for Ringworld, Larry also has won Hugo Awards for Neutron Star (Best Short Story 1967), Inconstant Moon (Best Short Story 1972), The Hole Man (Best Short Story 1975), and The Borderland of Sol (Best Short Story 1976). Niven was awarded the Skylark Award in 1973 (officially the "Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction"), given annually by the New England Science Fiction Association for significant contribution to SF in the spirit of the writer E.E. ³Doc² Smith.

For more information on Larry Niven and his work, we recommend http://www.larryniven.org.