CONTENTS

Introduction: The Maker of Worlds by Tom Clancy

On Niven (by David Brin, Gregory Benford, Wendy All, John Hertz, Steven Barnes, and Frederik Pohl)

Dramatis Personae

Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind

From WORLD OF PTAVVS

Bordered in Black

Convergent Series

All the Myriad Ways

From A GIFT FROM EARTH

For a Foggy Night

The Meddler

Passerby

Down in Flames

From RINGWORLD

The Fourth Profession

“Shall We Indulge in Rishathra?” (with cartoons by William Rotsler)     

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

Inconstant Moon

What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?

Cloak of Anarchy

From PROTECTOR

The Hole Man

Night on Mispec Moor

Flare Time

The Locusts (with Steven Barnes)

From THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE (with Jerry Pournelle)

Building The Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle)

Brenda

The Return of William Proxmire

The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters

Madness Has Its Place

Niven’s Laws

The Kiteman

The Alien in Our Minds

Space

Bibliography of Larry Niven