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. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource. Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. 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.
His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. In the future society, it turned out the Girls and Boys had relatively little in common, and never found a reason to come together.Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld(Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. Naturally, Corbell (the protagonist of the novel), an old-fashioned 20th century human) would like to have the old method of staying young forever. The method was far better than the older method of staying young forever." There is no resultant rise in numbers, because these Children do not have children. "Parents can see to it that their children stop growing older at an age just below - what is your word? When girls begin their cycle of blood - " The State had discovered an ideal form of young-forever," the old woman said. Earth was ruled by children, twenty billion children aged from eleven years to enormous. Niven finds a unique way around this particular problem in A World Out of Time. As those who read speculative fiction know, one of the scarier results of widespread anti-geriatric drugs or remedies is overpopulation.
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