A Hole in Space

1974 short story/essay collection by Larry Niven

A Hole in Space

First edition

Author| Larry Niven
Cover artist| Dean Ellis
Language| English
Publisher| Ballantine Books

Publication date

| 1974
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardcover)
Pages| 196 pp
ISBN| 0-345-24011-1
OCLC| 874123

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.5/4
LC Class| PZ4.N734 Ho PS3564.I9

A Hole in Space (U.K. edition ISBN 0-86007-853-1) is a collection of nine science fiction short stories and one essay, all by Larry Niven, published in 1974. This 1975 winner of the Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (place: second) includes:

* "Rammer" (this story had later become part of the novel A World Out of Time)
* "The Alibi Machine"
* "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club"
* "A Kind of Murder"
* "All the Bridges Rusting"
* "There Is a Tide" [Note 1]
* "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
* "$16,940.00"
* "The Hole Man"
* "The Fourth Profession"

## Explanatory footnotes

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1. ^ The title is a double quotation. (1) Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV Scene iii: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."[1] (2) Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixth: "There is a tide in the affairs of women,/Which, taken at the flood, leads – God knows where."[2]

## References

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1. ^ "William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4. Scene III". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
2. ^ "Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron: Canto the Sixth". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.

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Bibliography of Larry Niven

Known Space|

* World of Ptavvs (1966)
* A Gift from Earth (1968)
* Neutron Star (1968)
* Protector (1973)
* Tales of Known Space (1975)
* Flatlander (1976)
* The Patchwork Girl (1986)
* Crashlander (1994)

Ringworld|

* Ringworld (1970)
* The Ringworld Engineers (1979)
* The Ringworld Throne (1996)
* Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars1|

Fleet of Worlds2|

* Fleet of Worlds (2007)
* Juggler of Worlds (2008)
* Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
* Betrayer of Worlds (2010)
* Fate of Worlds (2012)

The Magic Goes Away|

* The Magic Goes Away (1976)
* The Magic May Return (1981)
* More Magic (1984)
* The Burning City (2000)
* Burning Tower (2005)
* The Seascape Tattoo (2016)

Written with
Jerry Pournelle|

* Inferno (1976)
* Lucifer's Hammer (1977)
* Oath of Fealty (1981)
* Footfall (1985)
* Escape from Hell (2009)

Moties3|

* The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
* The Gripping Hand (1993)

Heorot4|

* The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
* Beowulf's Children (1995)
* Destiny's Road (1997)
* Starborn & Godsons (2020)

Dream Park4|

* Dream Park (1981)
* The Barsoom Project (1989)
* The California Voodoo Game (1992)
* The Moon Maze Game (2011)

The State|

* A World Out of Time (1976)
* The Integral Trees (1984)
* The Smoke Ring (1987)

Co-authored novels|

* The Flying Sorcerers (1971)
* The Descent of Anansi (1982)
* Fallen Angels (1991)
* Building Harlequin's Moon (2005)
* Bowl of Heaven (2012)

Other collections|

* All the Myriad Ways (1971)
* The Flight of the Horse (1973)
* Inconstant Moon (1973)
* A Hole in Space (1974)
* Convergent Series (1979)
* Limits (1985)
* N-Space (1990)
* Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
* Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
* Rainbow Mars (1999)
* Scatterbrain (2003)
* The Draco Tavern (2006)
* Stars and Gods (2010)
* The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Short stories|

* "At the Core"
* "The Borderland of Sol"
* "Death by Ecstasy"
* "The Defenseless Dead"
* "Flash Crowd"
* "Flatlander"
* "Grendel"
* "The Handicapped"
* "The Hole Man"
* "The Jigsaw Man"
* "The Magic Goes Away"
* "Neutron Star"
* "Procrustes"
* "The Return of William Proxmire"
* "The Soft Weapon"
* "What Good Is A Glass Dagger?"

Essays|

* Niven's laws
* "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"

TV episodes written|

* "The Slaver Weapon" (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
* "Downstream" (Land of the Lost)
* "Hurricane" (Land of the Lost) with David Gerrold
* "Circle" (Land of the Lost) with David Gerrold

1. Collections by Niven or others
2. With Edward M. Lerner
3. Set in the CoDominium series
4. With Steven Barnes

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