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268:, he described the sequence as a "wide-ranging, complex, unusually well integrated Future History which, within an essentially optimistic and technophilic frame, provides an explanatory structure for the expansion of humanity into space, one notable from the first for the complexity of the Universe into which it introduces the burgeoning human race." Particular note is given to the inclusion of the timeline chart in 27: 907: 295:
and a number of short stories) were set in a Niven-inspired background and, although they were not published, elements of them were incorporated into his later novels.
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was the first of the kind he encountered as a teenager and remembered reading this collection (though he incorrectly gives the title as
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future history) along with several essays by Niven and a chronology. This book was collected in
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Main influences discussed extensively in Alastair Reynolds, Essay: "Future Histories",
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omnibus, "Madness Has Its Place" replaced this story)
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Index


Larry Niven
Rick Sternbach
Science fiction
Ballantine Books
ISBN
0-345-24563-6
science fiction
Larry Niven
Known Space
Three Books of Known Space
The Coldest Place
Becalmed in Hell
Wait It Out
The Jigsaw Man
Cloak of Anarchy
The Borderland of Sol
There Is a Tide
John Clute
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Alastair Reynolds
"Cloak of Anarchy"
"Niven, Larry"
Locus
Galactic North
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e
Bibliography
Larry Niven

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