Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space": 13 stories
Table of contents below is ordered on how well I like a story rather than publication order - best story first. My rating is in brackets (ABC: A = time well spent, C = don't bother).
- "The Jigsaw Man" (A); 1967: Chilling implications of human organ transplant technology. Nominated for Hugo Awards 1968 in short story category.
- "The Warriors" (A); If, Feb 1966: Very readable space opera. Man's first encounter with aliens of Kzinti species. Kzinti's have vastly superior technology, but heroic men beat them in the little war in deep space!
- "How the Heros Die" (A); Galaxy, Oct 1966: Only one of the two men can live. Who?
- "Intent to Deceive" (B); Galaxy, April 1968: Humor. A software bug creates major chaos at a fully automated restaurant.
- "Becalmed in Hell" (B); F&SF, July 1965: An accident on Venus.
- "At the Bottom of a Hole" (B); Galaxy, December 1966: Human explorers to Mars are killed by the natives.
- "Wait It Out" (B); The Future Unbound Program Book, 1968: An accident on Pluto puts a man in natural semi-stasis, awaiting & hoping eventual rescue.
- "Eye of an Octopus" (B); Galaxy, Feb 1966: Humans dig up a Martian's grave.
- "The Coldest Place" (B); If, December 1964: Hunt for alien creatures on "the dark side of" Mercury.
- "Safe at Any Speed" (B); F&SF, May 1967: A man is eaten by a huge bird along with his air car, & survives! On an new colony world.
- "There Is a Tide" (B); Galaxy, Jul 1968: An alien cons a human on an extra-Sol world, & regrets because of an unexpected development.
- * "Cloak of Anarchy" (B); download Analog, Mar 1972: An experiment in an anarchy-based society where there is no government.
- "The Borderland of Sol" (C); Analog, Jan 1975: Space pirates are robbing commercial traffic on busy interstellar routes with a novel weapon. Our heroes are out to hunt them down.
Tales of Known Space, collection, review
First published: August 1975
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