Larry Niven
Larry Niven at Stanford University in May 2006
Born	Laurence van Cott Niven (1938-04-30) April 30, 1938 (age 74) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Genres	Hard science fiction
Notable work(s)	Ringworld (1970), The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
larryniven.net

Laurence van Cott Niven ( /ˈnɪvən/; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. 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 also writes humorous stories; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.

Biography[link]

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Niven is a great-grandson of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, an important figure in the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s. 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. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969. He is an agnostic.^[1]

Work[link]

Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place". In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun (it was found to rotate in a 2:3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published).^{[citation needed]}

In addition to the Nebula award in 1970^[2] and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971^[3] for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Neutron Star" in 1967. He won the same award in 1972, for "Inconstant Moon", and in 1975 for "The Hole Man". In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Borderland of Sol".

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story "The Soft Weapon". He adapted his story "Inconstant Moon" for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.

He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books. The bible for Green Lantern was written by Niven.^{[citation needed]}

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters. The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.

The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.

Niven has also written a logical fantasy series The Magic Goes Away, which utilizes an exhaustible resource called Mana to power a rule-based "technological" magic.

The Draco Tavern series of short stories take place in a more light-hearted science fiction universe, and are told from the point of view of the proprietor of an omni-species bar.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

Much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, but also Brenda Cooper and Edward M. Lerner.

Influence[link]

Niven's most famous contribution to the SF genre is his concept of the Ringworld, a band of approximately the same diameter as Earth's orbit rotating around a star. The idea's genesis came from Niven's attempts to imagine a more efficient version of a Dyson Sphere, which could produce the effect of surface gravity through rotation. Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls (rim walls). When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

This idea proved influential, serving as an alternative to a full Dyson Sphere that required fewer assumptions (such as artificial gravity) and allowed a day/night cycle to be introduced (through the use of a smaller ring of "shadow squares", rotating between the ring and its sun). This was further developed by Iain M. Banks in his Culture series, which features about 1/100th ringworld–size megastructures called Orbitals that orbit a star rather than encircling it entirely. Alastair Reynolds also uses ringworlds in his 2008 novel House of Suns. The Ringworld-like namesake of the Halo video game series is the eponymous Halo megastructure/superweapon. It is one of the most visible influences of the Ringworld concept on popular culture.

The original release of Magic: The Gathering paid homage to Larry Niven on a card called "Nevinyrral's Disk," with Nevinyrral quite obviously "Larry Niven" spelled backwards. Subsequent sets have featured no new cards featuring Nevinyrral, although the character is sporadically quoted on the flavor text of various cards. Netrunner paid a similar homage to both Larry Niven with the card "Nevinyrral".

Policy involvement[link]

Larry Niven at Les Utopiales in 2010

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.^[4] However, in 1968 Niven's name appeared in a pro-war ad in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.^[5]

Niven was an adviser to Ronald Reagan on the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative anti missile policy, as covered in the BBC documentary Pandora's Box by Adam Curtis.^[6]

In 2007, Niven, in conjunction with a group of science fiction writers known as SIGMA, led by Pournelle, began advising the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as to future trends affecting terror policy and other topics.^[7] One of his suggestions as a member of SIGMA was that hospitals stem financial losses by spreading rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants, in order to reduce illegal immigrants' use of emergency rooms.^[8]

Other works[link]

One of Niven's best known humorous works is "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex", in which he uses real-world physics to underline the difficulties of Superman and a human woman (Lois Lane or Lana Lang) mating.

Larry Niven's novels frequently make use of the stasis field concept, which he also popularized.

In several titles and elsewhere Niven employs terms that are double entendre in that they are apparently metaphorical, but are in fact, meant to be taken literally, or sometimes vice versa. A few examples of this are:

• The novel Destiny's Road is in fact about a road on a planet called Destiny.
• In the Ringworld's past there was an event known as "The Fall of the Cities", in which floating cities literally fell out of the sky and crashed to the ground.
• In his short story, "At the Core", his albino hero Beowulf Shaeffer begins a trip to the Galactic core, but eventually has to turn back because the galactic center is in fact exploding, and sending a deadly wave of hard radiation before it, which prompts some ruminations on cowardice, and yields the revelation at the end of story that the phrase in the title had been meant metaphorically after all.
• The short story "There is a Tide" begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.
• The novel The Integral Trees features long straight floating trees which are curved at each end in opposite directions, giving them the shape of the mathematical integral sign, but are themselves integral to the life cycle of the inhabitants.
• The novel Footfall at first seems to refer to the elephantine Fithp invaders striding across the Earth, but is actually revealed to be the aliens dropping an asteroid nicknamed the Foot onto the Earth.
• The title of the short story "Locusts" continues this theme.

Niven's Laws[link]

Larry Niven is also known in science fiction fandom for "Niven's Law": There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it. Over the course of his career Niven has added to this first law a list of Niven's Laws which he describes as "how the Universe works" as far as he can tell.

Bibliography[link]

Known Space[link]

• World of Ptavvs (1966)
• A Gift from Earth (1968)
• Neutron Star (1968 collection)
• The Shape of Space (1969 collection)
• Protector (1973)—Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1974^[9]
• Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (1975 collection)
  • Three Books of Known Space (1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with "Madness Has Its Place" in place of "The Borderland of Sol", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth)
• The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976 collection, reprinted as Flatlander, 1995 omnibus)
• The Patchwork Girl (1980)
• World of Ptavvs / A Gift From Earth / Neutron Star (1991 omnibus)
• Crashlander: The Collected Tales of Beowulf Shaeffer (1994 collection)

Ringworld Prequel series (with Edward M. Lerner)

1. Fleet of Worlds (2007)
2. Juggler of Worlds (2008)
3. Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
4. Betrayer of Worlds (2010)

Ringworld

1. Ringworld (1970)— Nebula Award, 1970^[2] Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1971^[3]
2. The Ringworld Engineers (1980)—Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1981^[10]
   • Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein)
3. The Ringworld Throne (1996)
4. Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars

• Man-Kzin anthologies

1. The Man-Kzin Wars (1988)
2. Man-Kzin Wars II (1989)
3. Man-Kzin Wars III (1990)
4. Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991)
5. Man-Kzin Wars V (1992)
6. Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994)
7. Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995)
8. Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998)
   • The Best of All Possible Wars: The Best of the Man-Kzin Wars (1998)
9. Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002)
10. Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003)
11. Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005)
12. Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009)

• Man-Kzin novels

1. Cathouse: A Novel of the Man Kzin-Wars (1990, with Dean Ing)
2. The Children's Hour: A Novel of the Man-Kzin Wars (1991, with Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling)
3. Inconstant Star (1991, with Poul Anderson)
4. A Darker Geometry (1996, with Mark O. Martin and Gregory Benford)
5. The Houses of the Kzinti (2002, with Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle, S. M. Stirling)
6. Destiny's Forge: A Man-Kzin Wars Novel (2007, with Paul Chafe)

Heorot[link]

Heorot (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle)

1. The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
2. Beowulf's Children (1995, UK: The Dragons of Heorot)
3. Destiny's Road (1997, by Niven alone; not precisely a continuation of the Heorot series: located in the same universe, events from the first two novels are briefly mentioned)

with Jerry Pournelle[link]

• Inferno (1976)—Hugo and Nebula Awards nominee, 1976^[11]
• Lucifer's Hammer (1977)—Hugo Award nominee, 1978^[12]
• Oath of Fealty (1982)
• Footfall (1985)—Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1986^[13]
• Escape from Hell (2009, sequel to Inferno)
• Moties — part of Pournelle's CoDominium fictional universe

1. The Mote in God's Eye (1974)—Hugo, Nebula and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1975^[14]
2. The Gripping Hand (1993, UK: The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye)

• Golden Road (set in the same "Magic Universe" as The Magic Goes Away)

1. The Burning City (2000)
2. Burning Tower (2005)
3. Burning Mountain (in progress)

with Steven Barnes[link]

Dream Park

1. Dream Park (1981)—Locus SF Award nominee, 1982^[15]
2. The Barsoom Project (1989)
3. The California Voodoo Game (1992, UK: The Voodoo Game)
4. The Moon Maze Game (2011)

• The Descent of Anansi (1982)
• Achilles' Choice (1991)
• Saturn's Race (2001)

The State[link]

1. A World Out of Time (1976)—Locus SF Award nominee, 1977^[16]
2. The Integral Trees (1984)—Nebula Award nominee, 1984;^[17] Locus SF Award winner, and Hugo nominee, 1985^[18]
3. The Smoke Ring (1987)

Magic Goes Away[link]

1. Not Long before the End (1969)
2. What Good Is a Glass Dagger? (1972)
3. The Magic Goes Away (1978)
4. The Magic May Return (1981)
5. More Magic (1984)
6. The Time of the Warlock (1984)
   • The Magic Goes Away Collection (2005 omnibus)

Other novels[link]

• The Flying Sorcerers (1971, with David Gerrold), previously serialised as "The Misspelled Magishun", it is recursive, and includes portraits of other SF authors—e.g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as "As a color, shade of purple-gray" (or Purple for short), that is, "As-A-Mauve"
• Berserker Base: A Collaborative Novel (1984, with Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis, and Roger Zelazny)
• Fallen Angels (1991, with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn)
• Rainbow Mars (1999)
• Building Harlequin's Moon (2005, with Brenda Cooper)

Other collections[link]

• 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)
• Scatterbrain (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003)
• Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003)
• The Draco Tavern (2006)
• Stars and Gods (August 2010, ISBN 0-7653-0864-9)
• The Best of Larry Niven (November 2010, ISBN 978-1-59606-331-0)

Graphic novels and comics adaptations[link]

• Death by Ecstasy: Illustrated Adaptation of the Larry Niven Novella (1991)
• Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992, DC Comics, ISBN 1-56389-026-7) (with John Byrne)
• The Magic Goes Away, graphic novel illustrated by Jan Duursema, DC Comics
• "Not Long before the End" was adapted by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar, and "All the Myriad Ways" by writer-artist Howard Chaykin, both for Marvel Comics' black-and-white anthology magazine Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Larry Niven

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• Official website
• Bibliography on larryniven.net
• Larry Niven at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Larry Niven at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Audio interview with Larry Niven
• An audio interview with Larry Niven (MP3 format) from Hour 25
• Works by Larry Niven on Open Library at the Internet Archive
• Larry Niven on Fantastic Fiction
• Larry Niven at the Internet Movie Database

Gregory Benford
Born	(1941-01-30) January 30, 1941 (age 71) Mobile, Alabama
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	United States
Genres	Science Fiction
Notable work(s)	Galactic Center Saga novels
www.gregorybenford.com

Gregory Benford (born 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.^[1]

As a science fiction author, Benford is perhaps best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977).^[2] This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.

Biography[link]

Benford received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1963 from University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, followed by a Master of Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1965, and a doctorate there in 1967. That same year he married Joan Abbe. Benford modeled characters in several of his novels after her, most prominently the heroine of Artifact. She died in 2002.^[3]

Benford has an identical twin brother, Jim Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories. Both got their start in science fiction fandom, with Gregory co-editor of the science fiction fanzine Void. Benford has said he is an atheist^[4] , though his views are not settled ^[5].

Writing career[link]

Gregory Benford's first professional sale was the story "Stand-In" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1965). In 1969, he began writing a regular science column for Amazing Stories.

Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist. He has worked on several collaborations with authors including William Rotsler, David Brin and Gordon Eklund. His time-travel novel Timescape (1980) won both the Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. A scientific procedural, the novel eventually loaned its title to a line of science fiction published by Pocket Books. In the late 1990s, he wrote Foundation's Fear, one of an authorized sequel trilogy to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Other novels published in that period include several near-future science thrillers: Cosm (1998), The Martian Race (1999) and Eater (2000).

Benford has also served as an editor of numerous alternate history anthologies as well as collections of Hugo Award winners.

He has been nominated for four Hugo Awards (for two short stories and two novellas) and 12 Nebula Awards (in all categories). In addition to Timescape, he won the Nebula for the novelette "If the Stars Are Gods" (with Eklund).

Benford was a guest of honour at Aussiecon Three, the 1999 Worldcon. He remains a regular contributor to science fiction fanzines, such as Apparatchik.

Contributions to science and speculative science[link]

Benford claims to have created and written about the first computer virus in the late 1960s.

Benford's work in physics at the University of California Irvine has focussed on theoretical and experimental plasma physics, including studies of extremely strong turbulence, particularly in astrophysical contexts, and studies of magnetic structures from the galactic center to large scale galactic jets. Working in collaboration with, among others, science fiction writers Cramer, Forward, and Landis, Benford worked on a theoretical study of the physics of wormholes, which pointed out that wormholes, if formed in the early universe, could still exist in the present day if they were wrapped in a negative-mass cosmic string.^[6] Such wormholes could potentially be detected by gravitational lensing.

In 2004, Benford proposed that the harmful effects of global warming could be reduced by the construction of a rotating Fresnel lens 1,000 kilometres across, floating in space at the Lagrangian point L1. According to Benford, this lens would diffuse the light from the Sun and reduce the solar energy reaching the Earth by approximately 0.5% to 1%. He estimated that this would cost around US$10 billion. His plan has been commented on in a variety of forums.^[7] A similar plan was proposed in 1989 by J. T. Early,^[8] and again in 1997 by Edward Teller, Lowell Wood, and Roderick Hyde.^[9] In 2006, Benford pointed out one possible danger in this approach: if this lens were built and global warming were avoided, there would be less incentive to reduce greenhouse gases, and humans might continue to produce too much carbon dioxide until it caused some other environmental catastrophe, such as a chemical change in ocean water that could be disastrous to ocean life.^[10]

Benford serves on the board of directors and the steering committee of the Mars Society.

Benford's law of controversy[link]

Benford's law of controversy^[11][12] is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape,^[13] stating:

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.^[11][12]

The adage was quoted in an international drug policy article in a peer-reviewed social science journal.^[14]

Bibliography[link]

Galactic Center Saga[link]

Jupiter Projects[link]

Other series contributions[link]

Man-Kzin Wars (with Larry Niven)

Second Foundation

Non-series novels[link]

Collaborations[link]

Anthologies edited[link]

• Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II (1986), with Martin H. Greenberg
• Nuclear War (1988), with Martin H Greenberg
• Far Futures (1995)
• The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (1997), with Martin H. Greenberg
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 (2000)
• Microcosms (2004)

Alternate histories[link]

• Alternate Empires (1989) (with Martin H. Greenberg)
• Alternate Heroes (1989)
• Alternate Wars (1991)
• Alternate Americas (1992) (with Martin H. Greenberg)

Non-fiction[link]

• Habitats in Space (1998)
• Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (1999)
• Skylife: Visions of Our Homes in Space (2000, with George Zebrowsk)
• Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000, with George Zebrowski)
• Beyond Human: The New World of Cyborgs and Androids (2001)
• The Wonderful Future That Never Was (2010, with the Editors of Popular Mechanics)

Short-story collections[link]

• In Alien Flesh (1986)
• Matter's End (1990)
• Amazing Stories No 7 (1992), with J. R. Dunn, James Alan Gardner and Kim Mohan
• Worlds Vast and Various (1999)
• Immersion and Other Short Novels (2002)
• Merlin (2004)

Short stories[link]

• "Stand-In"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1965)

• "Representative From Earth"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1966)

• "Flattop"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1966)

• "Deeper Than the Darkness"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1969)

Sociology Through Science Fiction (1974)

• "Sons of Man"

Amazing Stories (November 1969)

• "Nobody Lives on Burton Street"

Amazing Science Fiction (May 1970)

World's Best Science Fiction (1971)

Sociology Through Science Fiction (1974)

Inside Information (1977)

• "The Scarred Man"

Venture (May 1970)

• "The Prince of New York"

Fantastic (June 1970)

• "3:02 p.m., Oxford"

If (September/October 1970)

• "The Movement"

Fantastic (October 1970)

• "Inalienable Rite"

Quark 1 (1970)

• "But the Secret Sits"

Galaxy Science Fiction (March 1971)

• "Star Crossing", with Donald Franson

If (March/April 1971)

• "Battleground", with Jim Benford

If (May/June 1971)

Guns of Darkness (1987)

• "West Wind, Falling", with Gordon Eklund

Universe 1 (1971)

• "And the Sea Like Mirrors"

Again, Dangerous Visions (1972)

Again, Dangerous Visions, Book 2 (1977)

Masterpieces of Science Fiction (1978)

• "In the Ocean of Night"

Worlds of If Science Fiction (May/Jun 1972)

In the Ocean of Night (1977)

• "Jupiter Project"

Amazing Stories (September 1972)

• "Icarus Descending"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1973)

In the Ocean of Night (1977)

• "Man in a Vice"

Amazing Science Fiction (February 1974)

• "Nobody Lives Around Here"

Vertex: The Magazine of Science Fiction (February 1974)

• "If the Stars Are Gods", with Gordon Eklund

Universe 4 (1974)

Best SF of the Year 4 (1975)

Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV (1986)

The Science Fiction Century (1997)

• "Threads of Time"

Threads of Time (1974)

In the Ocean of Night (1977)

• Doing Lennon

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (April 1975)

Best SF of the Year 5 (1976)

The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (1983)

Light Years and Dark (1984)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Beyond Grayworld

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (September 1975)

• Cambridge, 1:58 A.M

Epoch (1975)

• John of the Apocalypse

Tomorrow Today (1975)

• White Creatures

New Dimensions 5 (1975)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• How It All Went

Amazing Stories (March 1976)

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)

• The Anvil of Jove, with Gordon Eklund

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (July 1976)

• Marauder!

Alien Worlds (1976)

• Seascape (aka Pebble Among the Stars)

Faster Than Light (1976)

The Crash of Empire (1989)

• What Did You Do Last Year?, with Gordon Eklund

Universe 6 (1976)

• Hellas is Florida, with Gordon Eklund

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1977)

• Homemaker

Cosmos Science Fiction And Fantasy Magazine (May 1977)

• A Snark in the Night

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1977)

• Knowing Her

New Dimensions 7 (1977)

Time of Passage (1978)

• Starswarmer

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (June 1978)

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (September 1978)

• In Alien Flesh

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (September 1978)

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1979)

1979 Annual World's Best SF (1979)

Best SF Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection (1979)

The 1979 Annual World's Best SF (1979)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Old Woman By the Road

Destinies (November/December 1978)

Thor's Hammer (1979)

The Best of Destinies (1980)

• A Hiss of Dragon, with Marc Laidlaw

Omni, (December 1978)

Best SF of the Year 8 (1979)

Dragon Tales (1982)

The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 3 (1982)

• Nooncoming

Universe 8 (1978)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Time Guide

Destinies (January/February 1979)

• Dark Sanctuary

Omni (May 1979)

The Endless Frontier (1979)

The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 4 (1982)

• Redeemer

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (April 1979)

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1979)

Best SF Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (1980)

The Endless Frontier Vol. II (1982)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Calibrations and Exercises

New Dimensions 9 (1979)

The Best of New Dimensions (1979)

• Time Shards

Universe 9 (1979)

Best SF of the Year 9 (1980)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Titan Falling

Amazing Stories (August 1980)

• Pick an Orifice

Destinies (Fall 1980)

• Slices

Destinies (Spring 1981)

• Exposures

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (July 1981)

The Road to Science Fiction #4 (1982)

Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World (Anthology #6) (1982)

Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science (1983)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Norton Book of SF (1993)

The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994)

• Shall We Take a Little Walk?

Destinies (Winter 1981)

• Cadenza

New Dimensions 12 (1981)

• Valhalla

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1982)

• Lazarus Rising

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (July 1982)

• Relativistic Effects

Perpetual Light (1982)

Best SF of the Year 12 (1983)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994)

• Sandy Lust

The Berkley Showcase Volume 5 (1982)

• Swarmer, Skimmer

Best SF of the Year 11 (1982)

• The Touch (based on 'Continuidad de los parques', from Final del juego by Julio Cortázar )

The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 5 (1983)

R-A-M Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (1984)

• Me/Days

Universe 14 (1984)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Time's Rub

Time's Rub (1984)

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (April 1985)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (1987)

Future on Ice (1998)

• To the Storming Gulf

Afterwar (1985)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (April 1985)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Armageddon! (1989)

• Newton Sleep

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (January 1986)

Heroes in Hell (1986)

Nebula Awards 22 (1988)

• Of Space-Time and the River

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (February 1986)

Best SF of the Year 15 (1986)

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Freezeframe

Interzone (Autumn 1986)

Amazing Stories (May 1987)

Nebula Awards 23 (1989)

• As Big as the Ritz

Interzone, Winter 1986 (1986)

Alien Stars III: Under The Wheel (1987)

• Snatching the Bot

In Alien Flesh (1986)

• Effing the Ineffable

Nebula Awards 21 (1987)

• The Gods of the Gaps

Crusaders in Hell (1987)

• What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?

Spaceships & Spells (1987)

• Proselytes

Full Spectrum (1988)

• All the Beer on Mars

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (January 1989)

• Alphas

Amazing Stories (March 1989)

The 1990 Annual World's Best SF (1990)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990)

• We Could Do Worse

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (April 1989)

What Might Have Been? Vol I: Alternate Empires (1989)

Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998)

• Mozart on Morphine

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October 1989)

• Leviathan

Omni (1989)

• Proserpina's Daughter with Paul A. Carter

Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 3 (1989)

• The Rose and the Scalpel

Time Gate (1989)

Amazing Stories (January 1990)

• Warstory

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (January 1990)

• Latter-Day Martian Chronicles

Omni (July 1990)

• The Eagle and the Cross