Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories--including a brand-new one--in one long tale of exploration and adventure! PLUS--an all-new framing story that pull[...]

Let three complete books in one take you on a dazzling journey into science fiction's most famous future history: Known Space!

WORLD OF PTAVVS

Kzanol was a thrint from a distant galaxy. He had been trapped on Earth in a time-stasis field for two billion years. Now he was on the[...]

Five hundred years after the crew of the spaceship Discipline is forced to abandon ship in a space oasis called the Smoke Ring, their unknowing descendants are contacted by the ship's cyborg cop, Sharls Davis Kendy, in an omnibus edition that also includes The Smoke Ring. Reprint.[...]

"The Fault in Our Stars" meets "Eleanor and Park" in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of way[...]

Here is a concise introduction to the process which led to the division of Germany in 1949, and its reunification in 1990. While Germany is now politically united, it is still economically, socially and culturally divided along the east-west axis, and this book explores these problems facing post-un[...]

Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, Donnie Miller spends his days writing for the local newspaper, working on a film script, and acting as house-husband. What secrets has Donnie been keeping? And why does he have the terrible sense that his dream[...]

The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the t[...]

This book provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for successfully implementing the Balanced Scorecard methodology in small- and medium-sized companies. Building on the success of the first edition, the Second Edition includes new cases based on the author's experience implementing the balanced scorecard[...]

Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an [...]