All the Myriad Ways

Name: All the Myriad Ways
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ISBN: 9780345300485

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1981Del ReyISBN 9780345300485

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All the Myriad Ways is a collection of 14 short stories and essays by science fiction author Larry Niven, originally published in 1971. Contents "All the Myriad Ways" "Passerby" "For a Foggy Night" "Wait it Out" "The Jigsaw Man" "Not Long Before the End" "Unfinished Story #1" "Unfinished Story #2" "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" "Inconstant Moon" (Made into an Outer Limits episode) "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?" "Becalmed in Hell"

Publication Details

Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 1981
ISBN: 9780345300485

About Unknown Author

Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic. Source: Wikipedia