Stars and Gods

Stars and Gods
first edition of Stars and Gods
Author	Larry Niven
Cover artist	Getty Images
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, non-fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	2010
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	365 pp
ISBN	978-0-765-30864-1

Stars and Gods is a collection of science fiction and non-fiction by Larry Niven and edited by Jonathan Strahan, first published in hardcover and ebook form by Tor Books in August 2010. A trade paperback edition followed from the same publisher in August 2011.^[1]

The book contains nine excerpts from longer works, fifteen works of short fiction, and seven short nonfictional works by Niven, some written in collaboration, together with a preface and fifteen introductions to several of the pieces by the author and an interview of Niven by Brenda Cooper.^[1]

An asterisk indicates the piece is prefaced by an introduction by Niven.

"Preface"
Ringworld's Children (Chapters 1 and 2)
Rainbow Mars (Chapters 18 and 19)*
Escape from Hell (Seventh Circle, Third Round)* (with Jerry Pournelle)
Burning Tower (Chapters 2 and 3)* (with Jerry Pournelle)
Building Harlequin's Moon (Chapter 12)* (with Brenda Cooper)
Fleet of Worlds (excerpt)* (with Edward M. Lerner)
Juggler of Worlds (Edited Version of Chapter 59)* (with Edward M. Lerner)
"Choosing Names"*
"Fly-By-Night"*
"The Hunting Park"*
"After Mecca"
"Cadet Amelia"
"Cat Toy"
"Chicxulub"
"The Gatherers' Guild"
"The Solipsist at Dinner"
"Boys and Girls Together"
"Traveler" (essay)
"Rocket Men" (essay)
"Wet Mars" (essay)
Beowulf's Children (excerpt)* (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle)
"Where Next, Columbus?" (essay)* (with Jerry Pournelle)
Achilles' Choice (Chapters 15 and 16)* (with Steven Barnes)
"Choosing Life"* (with Brenda Cooper)
"Free Floaters" (with Brenda Cooper)
"Finding Myself" (with Brenda Cooper)
"The Missing Mass"*
"Safe Harbor"*
"Hooking the Reader" (essay)
"Larry Niven Interview by Brenda Cooper in 2000 AD" (by Brenda Cooper)
"Food Story for the Con Jose Program Book" (essay)
"Inconstant Moon has Passed" (essay)

Notes

1 2 Stars and Gods title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Bibliography by Larry Niven

Novels
Short-story collections

Known Space

World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968 collection) The Shape of Space (1969 collection) Protector (1973) Tales of Known Space (1975 collection) Flatlander (1976 collection, originally The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton) The Patchwork Girl (1986) Crashlander (1994 omnibus)

Ringworld	Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1979) Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars¹	Man-Kzin Wars (1988) Man-Kzin Wars II (1989) Man-Kzin Wars III (1990) Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991) Man-Kzin Wars V (1992) Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995) Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998) Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002) Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003) Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005) Destiny's Forge (2007 novel) Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009) Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2012)

Fleet of Worlds²	Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010) Fate of Worlds (2012)

The Magic Goes
Away

The Warlock	Not Long before the End (1969) What Good Is a Glass Dagger? (1972) The Magic Goes Away (1978) The Magic May Return (1981 collection) More Magic (1984) The Time of the Warlock (1984)

Golden Road³	The Burning City (2000) Burning Tower (2005) Burning Mountain (in progress)

Written with
Jerry Pournelle

Inferno (1976) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) Oath of Fealty (1982) Footfall (1985) Escape from Hell (2009 sequel to Inferno)

Moties⁴	The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993, UK title The Moat around Murcheson's Eye) Outies (2010, by J. R. Pournelle)

Heorot^{3, 5}	The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995, UK title The Dragons of Heorot) Destiny's Road (1997, by Niven alone)

Dream Park⁵

Dream Park (1981)
The Barsoom Project (1989)
The California Voodoo Game (1992, UK title The Voodoo Game)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)
Achilles' Choice (1991)
Saturn's Race (2001)
The Moon Maze Game (2011)

The State

Other co-authored
novels

The Flying Sorcerers (1971, with David Gerrold)
Berserker Base (1984, with Poul Anderson / Edward Bryant / Stephen R. Donaldson / Fred Saberhagen / Connie Willis / Roger Zelazny)
Fallen Angels (1991, with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn)
Rainbow Mars (1999, initially with Terry Pratchett)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005, with Brenda Cooper)

Other collections

All the Myriad Ways (1971)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Convergent Series (1979)
Niven's Laws (1984)
Limits (1985)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Scatterbrain (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Stars and Gods (2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Adapted as comics

Death by Ecstasy (1991)
Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992, by John Byrne)
The Magic Goes Away (by Jan Duursema)
"Not Long before the End" (by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar)
"All the Myriad Ways" (by Howard Chaykin)

¹ Collections by Niven or others. ² With Edward M. Lerner. ³ With Jerry Pournelle. ⁴ Set in the CoDominium series. ⁵ With Steven Barnes.

Selected short stories and novellas

"At the Core" "Bordered in Black" "The Borderland of Sol" "Death by Ecstasy" "The Defenseless Dead" "Flash Crowd" "Flatlander" "Grendel" "The Handicapped" "The Hole Man" "Inconstant Moon" "The Jigsaw Man" "The Magic Goes Away" "Neutron Star" "Procrustes" "The Return of William Proxmire" "The Soft Weapon"

Essays

Niven's laws "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel"

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Stars and Gods

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