Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
A modern science fiction classic, Larry Niven’s Ringworld won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel in 1970. Now this SF classic is adapted into a thrilling manga adventure. We wanted to share with you a sneak peek at some of the pages of the upcoming first volume of the series, publishing on July…
Starred Reviews: The Goliath Stone by Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington “The hard science can be dense, but it never gets in way of the breezy mood that gives this delightful romp its wings.” Publishers Weekly “A brilliantly crafted yarn that also manages to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller. And funny. Laugh-out-loud funny. What are…
Big Smart Objects Written by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven Gregory Benford’s take: In science fiction, a Big Dumb Object is any immense mysterious object that generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there. They don’t have to be inert constructs, and perhaps the dumb aspect also expresses the sensation of being struck…
By Steven Barnes I recently attended a screening of director William Friedkin’s classic “Sorcerer”, a 1977 adventure film starring Roy Scheider as a man on an impossible mission. It is a gritty, nasty, impeccably made film doomed to obscurity probably for the sin of using a supernaturally suggestive title designed to sucker in fans…
Larry Niven shares his favorite Frederik Pohl novel.
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Worlds Colliding? That’s Nothing Edward M. Lerner discusses Betrayer of Worlds, his newest collaboration with Larry Niven, released on the fortieth anniversary of Niven’s classic Ringworld. My first exposure to a Really Big Idea was an ancient and tattered—nay, disintegrating—copy of When Worlds Collide, by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, encountered in my school library.…