Larry Niven is an award winning American author of "hard" science fiction, best known for his "Ringworld" series, the first novel of the series by the same name having won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Ditmar awards!.

Hi novels are primarily hard science fiction and often feature theoretical Physics and the "big" science concepts (ie large scale science ideas). He has also written a number of fantasy novels and some detective fiction.

He has collaborated with a number of authors including Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, and is known within scifi fandom for "Niven's Laws", which describe how he see's the universe works, the first of which is:

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it

Bibliography

Ringworld

• Ringworld (1970)
• Ringworld Engineers (1980)
• Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994)
• Ringworld Throne (1996)
• Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin

• Man-Kzin Wars (1988)
• Man-Kzin Wars II (1989)
• Man-Kzin Wars III (1990)
• Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991)
• Man-Kzin Wars V (1992)
• Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994)
• Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995)
• Man Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998)
• Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002)
• Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003)
• Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005)
• Destiny's Forge (2007)
• Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009)

With Jerry Pournelle

• Inferno (1976)
• Lucifer's Hammer (1977)
• Oath of Fealty (1982)
• Footfall (1985)
• Escape from Hell (2009)

Moties

• The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
• The Moat around Murchesons Eye (1993)
• The Gripping Hand (1993)

Golden Road

• The Burning City (2000)
• Burning Tower (2005)

Heorot

• The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
• The Dragons of Heorot (1995)
• Destiny's Road (1997)

Dream Park

• Dream Park (1981)
• The Barsoom Project (1989)
• The California Voodoo Game (1992)
• The Descent of Anansi (1982)
• Achilles' Choice (1991)
• Saturn's Race (2001)

The State

• A World Out of Time (1976)
• The Integral Trees (1984)
• The Smoke Ring (1987)

Magic Goes Away

• Not Long Before The End (1969)
• What Good is a Glass Dagger? (1972)
• The Magic Goes Away (1978)
• The Magic May Return (1981)
• More Magic (1984)
• The Time of the Warlock (1984)

Short story collections

• All the Myriad Ways (1971)
• The Flight of the Horse (1973)
• Inconstant Moon (1973)
• A Hole in Space (1974)
• Convergent Series (1979)
• Niven's Laws (1984)
• Limits (1985)
• N-Space (1990)
• Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
• Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
• Crashlander (1994)
• Scatterbrain (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories 1 (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories 2 (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories 3 (2003)
• The Draco Tavern (2006)
• Stars and Gods (2010)

Single Volumes

• The World of Ptavvs (1966)
• A Gift from Earth (1968)
• Neutron Star (1968)
• The Shape of Space (1969)
• The Flying Sorcerers (1971)
• Protector (1973)
• Tales of Known Space (1975)
• The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976)
• The Patchwork Girl (1980)
• Berserker Base: A Collaborative Novel (1984)
• Fallen Angels (1991)
• Crashlander: The Collected Tales of Beowulf Shaeffer (1994)
• Rainbow Mars (1999)
• Building Harlequin's Moon (2005)
• Fleet of Worlds (2007)
• Juggler of Worlds (2008)
• Destroyer of Worlds (2009)