The consortium executives of Todos Santos, a four-square-mile, self-contained community above the devastated, near-future city of Los Angeles, a blighted urban enviroment wracked by violence, pollution, and poverty, exercise their full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their top-secret defens[...]

A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!

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.[...]

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 [...]

Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." "The San Francisco Chronicle" declared that "as science fiction, "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bes[...]

Return to the "vivid and unusual" ("Kirkus Reviews") world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Burning City," where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history.
Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn't the only danger [...]

Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon find themselves on the run from the authorities, which leads them to the last pro-tech group left on Earth--a group determined to send them back into space in twenty extremely complicated stages. Rep[...]

In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ("Ringworld") and Gregory Benford ("Timescape"), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a [...]

For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact--and grandest prize--in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets.
"Something" must [...]