Año 3017 d.C. Aunque el Segundo Imperio del Hombre abarca cientos de sistemas solares, todavía no se ha contactado con otros seres inteligentes. El hallazgo de una insólita nave espacial con el cuerpo exánime de un aliení...
Hace un cuarto de siglo, una expedición descubrió el sistema de la Paja y la humanidad tuvo su primer contacto con otra especie inteligente, cuya expansión por la galaxia resultaría letal para los hombres. En aquel entonces,...
Loosely based on Larry Niven's 1973 novella "Flash Crowd," Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences of the impact of having instantaneous teleportation , where humans can instantly travel long distances in milliseconds.
Darrell Schweitzer interviews: Vernor Vinge, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Fillippo, Tanith Lee, Patricia Mckillip, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele, John Clute, Elizabeth Hand, Maurice Broaddus, James P. Blaylock, Theodora Goss, Ben Bova, Richard A. Lupoff,...
Whether itâs God walking into the Draco Tavern, stony spirits talking to relatives, a robot plotting the ultimate murder, or the ability to see distinct patterns in the vibrations caused by uttering words and phrases .. these stories...
For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifactâand grandest prizeâin the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But without warning the Ringw...
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 planet...
Here is an extraordinary mix of fantasy and science fiction from one of the masters of science fiction, Larry Niven. *** The stories in this collection include some collaborations with authors such as Jerry Pournelle (Spirals) and Steven Barnes (The Locus...
Come back to the Ringworld . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered.  A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever...
When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people...
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisti...
The Ringworld is dying. And this time even Louis Wu - captive of the hyper-intelligent alien Tunesmith - may be unable to save it. Even if Louis can escape he will then have to survive in a galaxy ravaged by interstellar war and deadly political intrigue....
Larry Niven created his popular "Magic Goes Away" universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing world...