Edited by Jonathan Strahan

Dust jacket by Edward Miller

With the publication of his first story, “The Coldest Place”, in 1964 Larry Niven launched one of the most important careers in the history of science fiction. Over the next decade his stunning hard science fiction won four short fiction Hugo Awards and both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his all-time classic novel, Ringworld.

But it was the short stories that amazed and astounded first. Stories like “The Coldest Place”, “Becalmed in Hell”, “Neutron Star”, and “All the Myriad Ways”set the boundaries for ‘Known Space’, one of science fiction’s grandest future histories, while Niven also explored the classic tavern story in his ‘Draco’s Tavern’ sequence and even fantasy in his ‘Magic Goes Away’ stories.

Astoundingly, there has never been a single compendium the focused solely on Niven’s best short fiction until now. The Best of Larry Niven collects no less than twenty seven stories written over a period of thirty-five years, bringing together some of the best-loved stories in science fiction for the first time, along with some overlooked classics. Whether this is your first time in Known Space or you’re visiting old friends in Draco’s Tavern, The Best of Larry Niven is unforgettable.

Limited: 250 signed numbered leatherbound copies
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

Table of Contents

Becalmed in Hell
Bordered in Black
Neutron Star
The Soft Weapon
The Jigsaw Man
The Deadlier Weapon
All the Myriad Ways
Not Long Before the End
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
Inconstant Moon
Rammer
Cloak of Anarchy
The Fourth Profession
Flash Crowd
The Defenceless Dead
The Flight of the Horse
The Hole Man
Night On Mispec Moor
Flatlander
The Magic Goes Away
Cautionary Tales
Limits
A Teardrop Falls
The Return of William Proxmire
The Borderland of Sol
Smut Talk
The Missing Mass

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):
“This spellbinding collection is a must for fans of classic SF.”

From Locus:
“The Niven that emerges in this volume is ingenious, inventive, and above all playful: ‘playgrounds of the mind’ is a keynote phrase that has run through his comments on his own work, and play is clearly a major component of his personality as a writer. That playfulness shows up in the way he does the classic Extrapolation Thing, spinning out the implications of an Idea, whether to solve a problem or (better yet) to construct a milieu in which any number of stories can take place.”

From SFCrowsnest:
“This is another marvelous piece of SF history that Subterranean Press have put together for our enjoyment.”

From SFRevu:
“If you are a Niven fan then it will be great to have all of these stories in one place. If you are familiar only with Niven as the novelist then you are in for a real treat. If you have, by some fashion, never read Niven, then you are now able to fill in some huge gaps in your SF reading… Simply put, if you like hard SF then you need to get this book. Highly recommended.”