Niven frequently collaborated with Jerry Pournelle they wrote nine novels together, including The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer and Footfall. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for ' The Borderland of Sol'. He won the same award in 1972, for ' Inconstant Moon', and in 1975 for ' The Hole Man'. In addition to the Nebula Award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971 for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for ' Neutron Star' in 1967. Īlgis Budrys said in 1968 that Niven becoming a top writer despite the New Wave was evidence that 'trends are for second-raters'. 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). Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story 'The Coldest Place'. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He also completed a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Niven briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1962. Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892, and also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, works of rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977).

His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. Laurence van Cott Niven ( / ˈ n ɪ v ən/ born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. Niven at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, 2007

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