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Laurence van Cott Niven – amerykański pisarz science fiction.

Ukończył matematykę na Uniwersytecie Washburn w Kansas, w 1962.

Debiutował w 1964 utworem The Coldest Place. W 1967 otrzymał nagrodę Hugo za opowiadanie Neutron Star. Jego najbardziej znaną książką jest Pierścień . Książka ta otrzymała nagrody Hugo, Locusa oraz Nebuli.

Poza powieściami i opowiadaniami, Niven napisał również scenariusze do seriali telewizyjnych, między innymi do Star Trek: Seria animowana. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Kwiecień 1938
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Larry Niven: Cytaty po angielsku

“The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.”

Becalmed in Hell (p. 16)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”

Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed

“There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?”

Larry Niven książka Flash Crowd

Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65

“What’s intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge?”

Larry Niven książka Destiny's Road

Źródło: Destiny's Road (1997), Chapter 30, “Hydraulic * Empire” (p. 299)

“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

Larry Niven książka A World Out of Time

Źródło: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)

“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”

Larry Niven książka A World Out of Time

Źródło: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)

“You’re insane. Imagine my amazement.”

Larry Niven książka A World Out of Time

Źródło: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)

“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”

Larry Niven książka The Mote in God's Eye

“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.”
Źródło: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)

“That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”

Larry Niven książka The Borderland of Sol

Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.”
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”

“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)

“Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can’t.”

Larry Niven książka Grendel

Grendel (p. 252)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Was he deadpan because he didn’t care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years?”

Larry Niven książka Grendel

Grendel (p. 251)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.”

Larry Niven książka Grendel

Grendel (p. 248)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”

Larry Niven książka Protector

Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)

“I knew it long ago: I’m a compulsive teacher, but I can’t teach. The godawful state of today’s education system isn’t what’s stopping me. I lack at least two of the essential qualifications.
I cannot “suffer fools gladly.””

Larry Niven książka N-Space

The smartest of my pupils would get all my attention, and the rest would have to fend for themselves. And I can’t handle being interrupted.
Writing is the answer. Whatever I have to teach, my students will select themselves by buying the book. And nobody interrupts a printed page.
Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 26-27)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“He's a computer. Perfect memory, rigid logic, no judgment. I forgot. I talked to him like a human being, and now—”

Larry Niven książka A World Out of Time

Źródło: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)

“With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.”

Źródło: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 3, "The Car" (p. 53)

“A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.”

Larry Niven książka A Hole in Space

Źródło: Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974), The Fourth Profession (p. 167)

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