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* DeathWorld: The planet Gummidgy, where even the flowers are carnivorous and will try to eat you. Humans colonize it anyway, of course, and since Gummidgy was the first post-FTL colony, they didn't have the "one way trip" excuse. Taken up to eleven with Cannonball Express, which turns out to be [[spoiler: made entirely out of antimatter]].
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* DeathWorld: The DeathWorld:
** When humanity was originally settling the stars, they used ramscopp-driven robot probes to explore extrasolar systems, find habitable worlds, and send back word to the homeworld. When positive matches came back, colony ships were sent out to follow and start new colonies. When these ships, which had carried only enough fuel for the one-way trip, got there, it became apparent that a quirk in the probes' coding had caused them to treat as positive matches any planet where they could find a single, stably hospitable spot, regardless of what the rest of the world is like. This has result in some decidedly less than hospitable planets developing stable populations:
*** Jinx is a planet-sized moon pulled into an extreme oval shape by the gravity of the gas giant that it orbits, which causes its atmosphere to pool around its mid- and low latitudes. At its equator, there's a swampy ocean covered by an extremely thick atmosphere dense enough to crush a human's lungs and hot enough to cook him. Around it are the two livable bands that the probes found, where the locals live. The eastern and western poles project clear out of the atmosphere. Even in the habitable parts, Jinx has an extremely high gravity that causes even its high grav-adapted people to die early due to heart problems.
*** Plateau is a Venus-like world, covered almost entirely by a thick, toxic atmosphere that nothing resembling Earth life can possibly survive in. The only exception is a single California-sized plateau, Mount Lookitthat, that the probe spotted and where the colonists had to live.
*** We Made It was, evidently, reached by its probe during its spring or autumn. This is because, in summer and winter, its axis of rotation is angled directly at its primary, Procyon, which causes its surface to be scoured by fifteen-hundred-mile-per-hour winds. Its cities are all underground by necessity.
** On Gummidgy,where even the flowers are carnivorous and will try to eat you. Additionally, while most forms of life in the known worlds descend from the food-yeasts grown by the Slaver empire a billion and a half years ago, and consequently share the same basic biochemestry, Gummidgy's life evolved entirely indepedently. As such, all of its native biota is horribly, lethally toxic to offworlder life, with the only the only upside being that human flesh is as toxic to the local predators as the reverse, although that's of limited comfort to someone that's already been half-eaten by a Gummidgy reacher or orchid-thing before his flesh poisons his killer. Humans colonize it anyway, of course, and since Gummidgy was the first post-FTL colony, they didn't have the "one way trip" excuse. Taken up to eleven with excuse.
** Cannonball Express,which turns out to be [[spoiler: discovered in "Flatlander", is an extreme example -- [[spoiler:the whole thing is made entirely out of antimatter]].
** When humanity was originally settling the stars, they used ramscopp-driven robot probes to explore extrasolar systems, find habitable worlds, and send back word to the homeworld. When positive matches came back, colony ships were sent out to follow and start new colonies. When these ships, which had carried only enough fuel for the one-way trip, got there, it became apparent that a quirk in the probes' coding had caused them to treat as positive matches any planet where they could find a single, stably hospitable spot, regardless of what the rest of the world is like. This has result in some decidedly less than hospitable planets developing stable populations:
*** Jinx is a planet-sized moon pulled into an extreme oval shape by the gravity of the gas giant that it orbits, which causes its atmosphere to pool around its mid- and low latitudes. At its equator, there's a swampy ocean covered by an extremely thick atmosphere dense enough to crush a human's lungs and hot enough to cook him. Around it are the two livable bands that the probes found, where the locals live. The eastern and western poles project clear out of the atmosphere. Even in the habitable parts, Jinx has an extremely high gravity that causes even its high grav-adapted people to die early due to heart problems.
*** Plateau is a Venus-like world, covered almost entirely by a thick, toxic atmosphere that nothing resembling Earth life can possibly survive in. The only exception is a single California-sized plateau, Mount Lookitthat, that the probe spotted and where the colonists had to live.
*** We Made It was, evidently, reached by its probe during its spring or autumn. This is because, in summer and winter, its axis of rotation is angled directly at its primary, Procyon, which causes its surface to be scoured by fifteen-hundred-mile-per-hour winds. Its cities are all underground by necessity.
** On Gummidgy,
** Cannonball Express,
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* GhostShip: The climax of the story sees Hooker fleeing from known space in a ramscoop ship, with Loeffler in pursuit. Their flight takes them out of the mapped galaxy, and then out of the galaxy entirely, with autodocs keeping them alive over millennia even as increasingly ingrained habit turns Hooker into an almost robot-like being. Eventually, 120,000 years into the chase, a stray thought -- the first original thought that he has had in centuries -- drives Hooker to angle his ship to get a better look at Loeffler, and he realizes that [[spoiler:his pursuer has been dead ever since a laser exchange at the very start fried his life support, although he had the time to program his autopilot to try to ram Hooker's ship. The long pursuit has been driven entirely by a wrecked vessel following a last directive chasing an increasingly will-less and robotic man, and, when the ships grow close enough for the magnetic field of Loeffler's ship to kill Hooker, all that's left is a pair of ghost vessels chasing each other in the intergalactic void.]]
-->''Two empty ships drove furiously towards the edge of the universe, all alone.''
-->''Two empty ships drove furiously towards the edge of the universe, all alone.''
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Kzinti often use telepaths to inspect and interrogate prisoners. They are also carnivores who find herbivory morally and conceptually repugnant. In "The Soft Weapon", while being scanned by a telepath, the main character concentrates on the taste and texture of eating a raw carrot, "just to be difficult".
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* PsychicStatic: Kzinti often use telepaths to inspect and interrogate prisoners. They are also carnivores who find herbivory morally and conceptually repugnant. In "The Soft Weapon", while being scanned by a telepath, the main character concentrates on the taste and texture of eating a raw carrot, "just to be difficult".
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** The Quantum II hyperdrive that the Puppeteers discover is AwesomeButImpractical: it's ''much'' faster - about 75 ''seconds'' per light year. Unfortunately, there are ''loads'' of catches;
### Most hyperdrives just need to be Neptune’s distance from a star to work - two light hours; the Q-II needs to be ''five'' - '''Pluto’s!''' This means it can get you from any given human world in Known Space to any other in no more than eleven hours, but also no ''less'' than ten hours for ''any'' world outside the system.
### Most hyperdrives just need to be Neptune’s distance from a star to work - two light hours; the Q-II needs to be ''five'' - '''Pluto’s!''' This means it can get you from any given human world in Known Space to any other in no more than eleven hours, but also no ''less'' than ten hours for ''any'' world outside the system.
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** The Quantum II hyperdrive that the Puppeteers discover is AwesomeButImpractical: it's ''much'' faster - -- about 75 ''seconds'' per light year. Unfortunately, there are ''loads'' of catches;
### Most hyperdrives just need to be Neptune’s distance from a star to work- -- two light hours; the Q-II needs to be ''five'' - -- '''Pluto’s!''' This means it can get you from any given human world in Known Space to any other in no more than eleven hours, but also no ''less'' than ten hours for ''any'' world outside the system.
### Most hyperdrives just need to be Neptune’s distance from a star to work
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### The drive is ''huge'', it barely fits into the largest General Products hull, so there's no cargo room (and barely space for a pilot).
*** Most of that turns out to be not ''quite'' true: ''Long Shot'' is a prototype; the Puppeteers can't duplicate it; and while it is still very much larger than a standard hyperdrive, the ship isn't quite as packed as the Puppeteers are trying to make it look (among other things, it has a lifeboat built into a GP#2 hull hidden aboard). By the end of ''Fate of Worlds'', at least [[spoiler: Baedeker, Ol'tr'o, Proteus, and/or Tunesmith (though given the size of the latter's ... vessel ... making the drive smaller is not that important for him)]] could probably do better if any of them found it necessary.
*** Most of that turns out to be not ''quite'' true: ''Long Shot'' is a prototype; the Puppeteers can't duplicate it; and while it is still very much larger than a standard hyperdrive, the ship isn't quite as packed as the Puppeteers are trying to make it look (among other things, it has a lifeboat built into a GP#2 hull hidden aboard). By the end of ''Fate of Worlds'', at least [[spoiler: Baedeker, Ol'tr'o, Proteus, and/or Tunesmith (though given the size of the latter's ... vessel ... making the drive smaller is not that important for him)]] could probably do better if any of them found it necessary.
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### The drive is ''huge'', ''huge'' -- it barely fits into the largest General Products hull, so there's no cargo room (and barely space for a pilot).
*** Most of that turns out to be not ''quite'' true: ''Long Shot'' is a prototype; the Puppeteers can't duplicate it; and while it is still very much larger than a standard hyperdrive, the ship isn't quite as packed as the Puppeteers are trying to make it look (among other things, it has a lifeboat built into a GP#2 hull hidden aboard). By the end of ''Fate of Worlds'', at least[[spoiler: Baedeker, [[spoiler:Baedeker, Ol'tr'o, Proteus, and/or Tunesmith (though given the size of the latter's ... vessel ...latter's... vessel... making the drive smaller is not that important for him)]] could probably do better if any of them found it necessary.
*** Most of that turns out to be not ''quite'' true: ''Long Shot'' is a prototype; the Puppeteers can't duplicate it; and while it is still very much larger than a standard hyperdrive, the ship isn't quite as packed as the Puppeteers are trying to make it look (among other things, it has a lifeboat built into a GP#2 hull hidden aboard). By the end of ''Fate of Worlds'', at least
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* IHaveYourWife: After Jason manages to escape the Kzinti in "The Soft Weapon", they try to force him to bargain by threatening to eat his wife, who remains their prisoner, on limb at a time, with medical treatment in between to make sure that she doesn't die of shock while they work her over. When they capture him, they start the process right up in front of him.
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* PsychicStatic: Kzinti often use telepaths to inspect and interrogate prisoners. They are also carnivores who find herbivory morally and conceptually repugnant. In "The Soft Weapon", while being scanned by a telepath, the main character concentrates on the taste and texture of eating a raw carrot, "just to be difficult".
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* ''Fleet Of Worlds'' (2007 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Juggler Of Worlds'' (2008 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Destroyer Of Worlds'' (2009 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Betrayer Of Worlds'' (2010 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Fate Of Worlds'' (2012 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner); also the [[FullyAbsorbedFinale sequel]] to ''Ringworld's Children''.
** ''Juggler Of Worlds'' (2008 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Destroyer Of Worlds'' (2009 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Betrayer Of Worlds'' (2010 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''Fate Of Worlds'' (2012 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner); also the [[FullyAbsorbedFinale sequel]] to ''Ringworld's Children''.
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* ''Fleet Of of Worlds'' (2007 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''JugglerOf of Worlds'' (2008 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''DestroyerOf of Worlds'' (2009 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''BetrayerOf of Worlds'' (2010 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner)
** ''FateOf of Worlds'' (2012 novel, written in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner); also the [[FullyAbsorbedFinale sequel]] to ''Ringworld's Children''.
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** ''Destroyer
** ''Betrayer
** ''Fate
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Originally, the stories set in Known Space were set in two separate [[TheVerse universes]]. The first, composed mainly of Niven's [[AsteroidMiners Belter]] stories, the Gil "The Arm" Hamilton mysteries, and the novels ''World Of Ptavvs'', ''A Gift From Earth'' and ''Literature/{{Protector}}'', were about the initial colonization of the solar system, and the use of slower-than-light travel to colonize planets in other solar systems. The second universe was set much farther into the future and was composed of the Beowulf Shaeffer and Louis Wu stories, as well as a handful of other short stories. The two [[TheVerse universes]] were combined in Niven's short story ''A Relic Of The Empire'', which featured elements of the Thrintun Empire (from the novel ''World Of Ptavvs'', one of the Belter stories) being dealt with by people from his faster-than-light setting.
Roughly 300 years separates the timeline of the last stories of the Belter setting (which are set roughly between the years 2000 and 2350), from the earliest stories in the later Neutron Star/Ringworld setting (which are set in 2651 (Neutron Star) to 3100). In the late 1980s, Niven [[CanonWelding opened up this gap in the known space timeline]], and the stories of the Man-Kzin Wars volumes fill in that history, joining the two settings.
Roughly 300 years separates the timeline of the last stories of the Belter setting (which are set roughly between the years 2000 and 2350), from the earliest stories in the later Neutron Star/Ringworld setting (which are set in 2651 (Neutron Star) to 3100). In the late 1980s, Niven [[CanonWelding opened up this gap in the known space timeline]], and the stories of the Man-Kzin Wars volumes fill in that history, joining the two settings.
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Originally, the stories set in Known Space were set in two separate [[TheVerse universes]]. The first, composed mainly of Niven's [[AsteroidMiners Belter]] stories, the Gil "The Arm" Hamilton mysteries, and the novels ''World Of of Ptavvs'', ''A Gift From Earth'' and ''Literature/{{Protector}}'', were about the initial colonization of the solar system, and the use of slower-than-light travel to colonize planets in other solar systems. The second universe was set much farther into the future and was composed of the Beowulf Shaeffer and Louis Wu stories, as well as a handful of other short stories. The two [[TheVerse universes]] were combined in Niven's short story ''A Relic Of The of the Empire'', which featured elements of the Thrintun Empire (from the novel ''World Of of Ptavvs'', one of the Belter stories) being dealt with by people from his faster-than-light setting.
Roughly 300 years separates the timeline of the last stories of the Belter setting (which are set roughly between the years 2000 and 2350), from the earliest stories in the laterNeutron Star/Ringworld ''Neutron Star''/''Ringworld'' setting (which are set in 2651 (Neutron Star) (''Neutron Star'') to 3100). In the late 1980s, Niven [[CanonWelding opened up this gap in the known space timeline]], and the stories of the Man-Kzin Wars volumes fill in that history, joining the two settings.
Roughly 300 years separates the timeline of the last stories of the Belter setting (which are set roughly between the years 2000 and 2350), from the earliest stories in the later
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** The Tnuctipun, one of the Thrintun's slave species, were superintelligent pack carnivores that considered other intelligent lifeforms to be talking food. Lucky for them, they were fighting the Thrintun and got to look like good guys. Unlucky for them, the Thrintun were sore losers. One particularly Bastardly example of Tnuctipun thinking was the Bandersnatchi; an engineered life form that turned yeast into an irresistible food source for Thrintun. Specifically, the part of "whitefoods" that Thrintun found irresistible were their ''brains'', which meant they let the Tnuctipun engineer that organ to be as large as possible -- thereby making them ''sapient'', enabling them to act as spies.
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** The Tnuctipun, one of the Thrintun's slave species, were superintelligent pack carnivores that considered other intelligent lifeforms to be talking food. Lucky for them, they were fighting the Thrintun and got to look like good guys. Unlucky for them, the Thrintun were sore losers. One particularly Bastardly example of Tnuctipun thinking was the Bandersnatchi; an engineered life form that turned yeast into an irresistible food source for the carnivorous Thrintun. Specifically, the part of "whitefoods" that Thrintun found irresistible were their ''brains'', which meant they let the Tnuctipun engineer that organ to be as large as possible -- thereby making the Tnuctipun made them ''sapient'', ''sapient'' and immune to Thrint telepathy, enabling them to act as spies.spies, but didn't give them any manipulatory limbs. After the Thrint destroyed their slaves and themselves the Bandersnatch were left with no way to develop any technology until new intelligent species evolved to come sell them artificial manipulators.
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* ''The Woman in Del Rey Crater'' (1995)Fifth Gil Hamilton story.
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* ''World of Ptavvs'' (1966) Niven's first published full-length novel.
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* ''World of Ptavvs'' (1966) Niven's first published full-length novel. Introduced the Thrint, the Bandersnatchi, and stasis fields.
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* ''Literature/{{Protector}}'' (1973) Expansion/Fix-up of ''The Adults''.
