ourselves Ptavvs and that Earth is the World of Ptavvs—as seen through alien eyes. The success of this book testifies to the effectiveness of Niven's curiosity-arousing...
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Known Space (redirect from The Tales of Known Space)
Niven's first novel, World of Ptavvs, the hyperdrive used by the Thrintun required a ship to be going faster than 93% of the speed of light. However, this...
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Larry Niven bibliography (category Bibliographies of American writers)
A list of works by, or about, the American science fiction author Larry Niven. World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968 collection)...
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culmination of a carefully thought out, centuries-long plan. In the novel World of Ptavvs, the protagonist Larry Greenberg, a telepath who reads the mind of a Thrint...
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problem foretold, by Ian Cowie, in The Daily Telegraph; published April 24, 2004; retrieved August 6, 2018 World of Ptavvs, 1966; "the Struldbrugs Club"...
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World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt The World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven A World Out of Time by Larry Niven World War Z by Max Brooks Worm by John McCrae...
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aliens out of the story, and focus instead on devices they left behind, as in the novels Scarlet Dream, Galactic Derelict, World of Ptavvs, Toolmaker...
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series, e.g., World of Ptavvs (1965),: 76 A term invented by George Griffith in his A Honeymoon in Space (1901).: 69, 108 An early treatment of this idea...
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (category Encyclopedias of fictional worlds)
text). It contains Barlowe's visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary...
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location missing publisher (link) Peterson, Jon (2012). Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing...
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