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Laurence van Cott Niven ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller, insbesondere der Romanzyklen der Kzin-Kriege und Ringwelt. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. April 1938
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“The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.”

Becalmed in Hell (p. 16)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”

Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed

“There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?”

Larry Niven buch Flash Crowd

Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65

“What’s intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge?”

Larry Niven buch Destiny's Road

Quelle: Destiny's Road (1997), Chapter 30, “Hydraulic * Empire” (p. 299)

“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

Larry Niven buch A World Out of Time

Quelle: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)

“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”

Larry Niven buch A World Out of Time

Quelle: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)

“You’re insane. Imagine my amazement.”

Larry Niven buch A World Out of Time

Quelle: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)

“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”

Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.”
Quelle: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)

“That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”

Larry Niven buch The Borderland of Sol

Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.”
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”

“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)

“Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can’t.”

Larry Niven buch Grendel

Grendel (p. 252)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Was he deadpan because he didn’t care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years?”

Larry Niven buch Grendel

Grendel (p. 251)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.”

Larry Niven buch Grendel

Grendel (p. 248)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”

Larry Niven buch Protector

Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)

“I knew it long ago: I’m a compulsive teacher, but I can’t teach. The godawful state of today’s education system isn’t what’s stopping me. I lack at least two of the essential qualifications.
I cannot “suffer fools gladly.””

Larry Niven buch N-Space

The smartest of my pupils would get all my attention, and the rest would have to fend for themselves. And I can’t handle being interrupted.
Writing is the answer. Whatever I have to teach, my students will select themselves by buying the book. And nobody interrupts a printed page.
Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 26-27)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“He's a computer. Perfect memory, rigid logic, no judgment. I forgot. I talked to him like a human being, and now—”

Larry Niven buch A World Out of Time

Quelle: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)

“With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.”

Quelle: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 3, "The Car" (p. 53)

“A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.”

Larry Niven buch A Hole in Space

Quelle: Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974), The Fourth Profession (p. 167)

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