Larry Niven Archives

The question of just how inspired Bungie was by Larry Niven's Ringworld series has been quietly boiling in the background and bubbles up every time a new Halo comes around Of course, burden for this comes down to Bungie as they were the original team to put the Halo IP together Bungie themselves have commented on the[...]

Further emphasizing a recent shift towards a larger investment in series development, Amazon Studios announced development of three series adaptations of popular sci-fi works: Lazarus, based on the comic book by Greg Rucka (Marvel's Jessica Jones) and Michael Lark (Gotham Central); Snow Crash, based on Neal Stephenson's cult novel; and Ringworld, based on Larry Niven's '70s sci-fi[...]

 Pournelle's career ran the gamut from science (he worked in areas ranging from manned space flight to missile defense for Boeing, the USAF, and elsewhere) to science fiction (such as The Mote in God's Eye, Inferno, and Lucifer's Hammer, co-authored with Larry Niven), and quite a bit in between  He received 5 Hugo and 3[...]