Larry Niven

Person · Open Library

Born

April 30, 1938

Works

240

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1938-04-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

978

Total plays

30,300

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint

   · 1988 · cited 16,708x

2. New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors

   · 2000 · cited 13,419x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,802x

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,241x

5. Introduction to Meta‐Analysis

   · 2009 · cited 9,603x

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Quotes

• “That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.”
• “Think of it as evolution in action.”
• “God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
• “Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”
• “Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”
• “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”

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Key facts

Born

Laurence van Cott Niven , ( 1938-04-30 ) April 30, 1938 (age 88) , Los Angeles , California, U.S.

Occupation

Novelist

Alma mater

California Institute of Technology Washburn University ( BA )

Period

1964–present

Genre

Hard science fiction Fantasy

Notable works

Ringworld (1970) The Mote in God's Eye (1974) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) The Ringworld Engineers (1980) Dream Park (1981)

Notable awards

Inkpot Award (1979)

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