The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol. He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for Neutron Star and in 1974 for The Hole Man. His first published story, The Coldest Place, appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Kansas, in 1962, and completed one year of graduate work before he dropped out to write. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed? About the Author Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Speaker-To-Animals: kzin large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. Teela Brown: human a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane. Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Louis Wu: human and old bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Book Synopsis Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld.
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