Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2015).
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
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science · American science fiction writer (born 1938) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · mathematician · science fiction writer · also Larry Niven, Laurence van Cott Niven, Niven
Born 30 April 1938 · Q316610
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2015· 1 entry
2007· 1 entry
Niven, in conjunction with a think tank of science fiction writers known as SIGMA, founded and led by Arlan Andrews, began advising the U
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Locus Award for Best Short Story for The Missing Mass (2001).
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1987· 1 entry
That he hesitated to buy a new computer to write with because Niven would "buy two exact duplicates of my setup on the theory that the best maintenance policy is a second system"
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for The Integral Trees (1985).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Locus Award for Best Collection for Convergent Series (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (1979).
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Awarded Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work for Ringworld (1979).
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1978· 4 entries
“Hay gente que cree que odia los ordenadores. Lo que odian en realidad son los malos programadores.”
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“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
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“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”
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“La estupidez es siempre un delito capital.”
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol (1976).
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Won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Borderland of Sol"
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for The Hole Man (1975).
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1972· 1 entry
For "Inconstant Moon", and in 1975 for "The Hole Man"
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1971· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for Ringworld (1971).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Novel for Ringworld (1971).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for Ringworld (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
And the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971 for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Neutron Star" in 1967
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1969· 1 entry
Married Marilyn Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan
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1968· 2 entries
That Niven becoming a top writer despite the New Wave was evidence that "trends are for second-raters"
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Niven signed an advertisement in Galaxy Science Fiction in support for continued US involvement in the Vietnam War
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star (1967).
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Niven, despite being a staunch conservative, voiced opposition to the Vietnam War
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-04-30.
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1892· 1 entry
And also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal
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