#larryniven — Public Fediverse posts

@angelastella
#JohnBrunner with Eptification - with a bad result - and #JoeHaldeman with some sort of overlays in #WorldsApart and assorted authors with "memory tapes and of course #TheMatrix "now I do!"

And in a less friendly way #LarryNiven with #Corpsicles and #RichardMorgan with the #DigitallyStoredHumans and #DigitallyFreightedHumans and uploading into a sleeve.

And a bunch more.

#SciFi

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England" von #BrandonSanderson. Dass "John" den alten Vornamen und das alte Leben hinter sich lassen möchte ist allzu verständlich. Dass Brandon Sanderson nicht #RobertShea ("Mathemagie") und #LarryNiven ("Der Flug des Pferdes") als frühere Meister des Genres mit vergleichbarer Story erwähnt ist mir unverständlich, so will zumindest ich es tun. #bookstodon #fantasyromane #amreadingfantasy

Born this day: 04/30/1938
Larry Niven is an American hard SF writer. His novel Ringworld (1970), a vast artificial habitat circling a distant sun and set in his Known Space future history, swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He won four more Hugos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #LarryNiven @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com
Art by Dean Ellis

"There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is ‘idiot’."

~ Larry Niven, born today, 1938.

#LarryNiven #Quote #Today

L'Anneau monde de Larry Niven (Prix Hugo 1971) est au menu de notre émission Sense of Wonder !

Ce classique de la SF a-t-il bien vieillit ? Une émission à écouter sur toutes les plateformes. Vous en gardez quels souvenirs ?

Par ici : https://buff.ly/ixrXF5w

#senseofwonder #sciencefiction #Larryniven

Allez, les Notes Hebdomadaires, c'est parti !

On cause pas mal de diverses découvertes de pop culture, puisque c'était une semaine de vacances. Ça cause anime sur Crunchyroll, L'atelier des sorciers, Journal with witch, mais aussi Le seigneur des anneaux, The Pitt, Portal Knights, bref, plein de trucs chouettes à découvrir et lire !

https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdomadaires-semaine-du-13-avril-2026

#blog #blogz #zaclys #notesHebdomadaire #NotesHebdo #NotesHebdos #ThePitt #LAtelierDesSorciers #crunchyroll #portalKnights #game #lecture #tolkien #larryNiven

Allez, les Notes Hebdomadaires, c'est parti !

On cause pas mal de diverses découvertes de pop culture, puisque c'était une semaine de vacances. Ça cause anime sur Crunchyroll, L'atelier des sorciers, Journal with witch, mais aussi Le seigneur des anneaux, The Pitt, Portal Knights, bref, plein de trucs chouettes à découvrir et lire !

https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdomadaires-semaine-du-13-avril-2026

#blog #blogz #zaclys #notesHebdomadaire #NotesHebdo #NotesHebdos #ThePitt #LAtelierDesSorciers #crunchyroll #portalKnights #game #lecture #tolkien #larryNiven

Allez, les Notes Hebdomadaires, c'est parti !

On cause pas mal de diverses découvertes de pop culture, puisque c'était une semaine de vacances. Ça cause anime sur Crunchyroll, L'atelier des sorciers, Journal with witch, mais aussi Le seigneur des anneaux, The Pitt, Portal Knights, bref, plein de trucs chouettes à découvrir et lire !

https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdomadaires-semaine-du-13-avril-2026

#blog #blogz #zaclys #notesHebdomadaire #NotesHebdo #NotesHebdos #ThePitt #LAtelierDesSorciers #crunchyroll #portalKnights #game #lecture #tolkien #larryNiven

Allez, les Notes Hebdomadaires, c'est parti !

On cause pas mal de diverses découvertes de pop culture, puisque c'était une semaine de vacances. Ça cause anime sur Crunchyroll, L'atelier des sorciers, Journal with witch, mais aussi Le seigneur des anneaux, The Pitt, Portal Knights, bref, plein de trucs chouettes à découvrir et lire !

https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdomadaires-semaine-du-13-avril-2026

#blog #blogz #zaclys #notesHebdomadaire #NotesHebdo #NotesHebdos #ThePitt #LAtelierDesSorciers #crunchyroll #portalKnights #game #lecture #tolkien #larryNiven

Allez, les Notes Hebdomadaires, c'est parti !

On cause pas mal de diverses découvertes de pop culture, puisque c'était une semaine de vacances. Ça cause anime sur Crunchyroll, L'atelier des sorciers, Journal with witch, mais aussi Le seigneur des anneaux, The Pitt, Portal Knights, bref, plein de trucs chouettes à découvrir et lire !

https://blogz.zaclys.com/irisdessine/notes-hebdomadaires-semaine-du-13-avril-2026

#blog #blogz #zaclys #notesHebdomadaire #NotesHebdo #NotesHebdos #ThePitt #LAtelierDesSorciers #crunchyroll #portalKnights #game #lecture #tolkien #larryNiven

@jrjohnson.me Tau Ceti also #LarryNiven #AGiftFromEarth

Out in the #KnownSpace of #LarryNiven, there is a machine the size of a building, possibly built by a #PakProtector as its insides are human-scale. We know this because those that found it now employ humans to do maintenance on it, wearing black radiation armor suits heavy enough to require powered assists. The tech briefing went over my head with talk about neutrinos and #scrith and the mass of the W boson, but the key thing is that this machine will kill you. So never take off the gauntlets or stop to think about a problem. Just follow the manual, call for help if you need more hands, and listen to the veterans. The suits are like elaborate black plate mail, and I bet they would look impressive standing in a nice clean museum as they are literally relics, as is the machine which might finally allow humans to build a new type of hyperspace engine. But that's for others to worry about, as I need to earn enough to leave this place. This universe. Known Space is not a nice place to visit because it will kill you, enslave you, eat you, or worse. When I get home to the more forgiving universe of #TheCulture, I'm sure my ship-Mind will have a great deal to say about the rationality of my choices. I don't think scrith would work at home and it's not even full protection. This universe might hate people. And there is something wrong with their hyperspace. It may a singular thing actually aware of humans and is visually incomprehensible either as a side effect of hostility or attempts to interact. Finally, for any who follow me, #TeelaBrown may be too dangerous a friend to stand next to, but be sure to ask for post cards.

Thanks to @MicroSFF for inspiration. #IainMBanks

@sundogplanets
In 1966 #LarryNiven a SciFi author in #WorldOfPtavvs had #Pluto a moon of Neptune, long previously hit by a spaceship at relativistic speed aimed at #Neptune An artifact protected by a plot device remained on it.

He would have been aware of that work I think.

Good story, although the usual elements wouldn't do this century.

Sometime around 1998 I bought the first three Ringworld books by Larry Niven. I vaguely remembered reading them and not connecting with them so they've sat on the shelf since then but I recently decided to pick them up again. Ringworld was better than I remembered, but interestingly Ringworld Engineers rings no bells at all so I now think that I was so unimpressed by the first book I didn't bother with the other two. Anyway, I'm quite enjoying them now.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #LarryNiven

Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Pyłek w oku Boga” Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle«

„Pyłek w oku Boga” opowiada historię pierwszego kontaktu z Motami w narracji wiktoriańskiej z celebracją pozycji społecznej i posiadanego majątku. II Imperium Człowieka z porządkiem społecznym ustalanym przez cenzus urodzenia poważa naukę tylko o tyle, o ile służy ona politycznym i finansowym interesom oligarchii Imperium. Flota imperialna tego porządku strzeże i go utrwala. To czytelny i niekomplikowany motyw galaktycznej ekspansji...

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/recenzje/fantastyczne/recenzja-pylek-w-oku-boga-larry-niven-jerry-pournelle/

#Fahrenheit_zin #recenzja #Vesper #LarryNiven #JerryPournelle #TomaszKokowski #PyłekwokuBoga #TomaszChyrzyński #TheMoteinGodsEye #UrszulaHorecka #UrszulaOkrzeja #MichałLoranc #Motowie #Wymiary

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

That was from The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven.

#RingworldEngineers #LarryNiven

Fantastyka:
»Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle „Pyłek w oku Boga”«

Na początku czwartego tysiąclecia odrodzona i zjednoczona po latach wyniszczającej wojny domowej ludzkość skolonizowała setki systemów gwiezdnych. Nowa technologia umożliwia statkom szybkie przemieszczanie się po wszystkich znanych ludziom układach gwiazd... "Pyłek w oku Boga" Larry'ego Nivena i Jerry'ego Pournelle'a ukazał się w Polsce nakładem wydawnictwa Vesper.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/larry-niven-jerry-pournelle-pylek-w-oku-boga/

#Fahrenheit_zin #sciencefiction #Vesper #książka #LarryNiven #JerryPournelle #PyłekwokuBoga #TomaszChyrzyński #TheMoteinGodsEye #UrszulaHorecka #UrszulaOkrzeja #MichałLoranc #Motowie #Wymiary

@AkaSci
There's the #Autodoc , a deus* ex machina or plot device in for instance Larry Niven's Known Space science fiction novels but the most woo that got was nanotechnology.

* Mercury, I suppose.

#SciFi #LarryNiven #KnownSpace

‘The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton’ Reveals Niven’s Social Awareness

The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976) by Larry Niven collects the first three stories about ARM agent Gil Hamilton. Niven’s attempt at SF detective stories is an interesting mix of ideas and world building. However, the mysteries are only part of the story. The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton is as much social commentary as compelling detective fiction.

Gil Hamilton is an agent of the UN Amalgamated Regional Militia, a very special one. His intuition is peerless and his psychic abilities priceless. Combined with his raw, natural courage Gil ‘the Arm’ Hamilton is one of the most formidible agents in the ARM orginization.

The world is a dangerous place and it is men and women like Gil that keep them safe. When rogue orginizations murder, when new technologies threaten it is Gil Hamilton and ARM that must shield the world. And a strange death makes the job personal Gil.

The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton is set in Larry Niven’s Known Space universe but in its very early days. There is no FTL space travel and the world has a population of 18 billion. Society is under terrible pressures and the cracks are showing. Thus need for ARM.

“Death By Ecstasy” is the first story of the collection and the most personal for Gil. When Belter Owen Jennison is found dead alone in his apartment, the local police are sure it must be suicide. However, Gil is the next of kin of the victim and receives a call. It turns out the victim is a friend of Gil’s from his days as a Belter. All the evidence points to suicide and even Gil must consider it, however, his gut is telling him that Owen would never commit suicide.

As an opening to the life and times of Gil Hamilton, “Death By Ecstasy” is a rather pedestrian mystery. On the surface it is a closed room mystery that would not be out of place in an Agatha Christie novel. What is truly compelling about “Death By Ecstasy” is the world Niven illuminates.

The Known Universe at this time is uncomfortably grim. Medical technology has advanced to a point where organs and limbs are replaceable almost indefinitely. The problem, however, is supply. The world has responded by making death row criminals involuntary donors. Yet this has its limits as well. To increase supply the death penalty becomes the punishment for many lesser crimes.

The Known Universe at this time looks good on the outside, however, it hides a very ugly secret. Niven’s extrapolation of the use of the death penalty paints a callous society easily manipulated by a political system trying to maintain its power. The organleggers are a symptom of the choices that society makes in the pursuit of eternal health.

In “The Defenseless Dead” Gil Hamilton is the target of an assassination attempt. Narrowly escaping with his life the attempt is puzzling. The assassin, a former organlegger, is even more confusing. G il doesn’t know him and he never investigated the man. The only lead Gil can come up with is a kidnapping case from a few years earlier, which is even more strange for organleggers.

“The Defenseless Dead” is a clever story that interweaves several mysteries together. Niven delves more deeply into the effects of the death penalty on society. The drive to keep organs available has caused the government to declare certain people legally dead. People in cryogenic sleep.

What makes “The Defenseless Dead” so gripping is the impersonal way that society will revoke people’s rights when they have no voice. Society creates new brand underclass is for persecution and exploitation for their own self-interests . This is a story with eerie relevance today.

The last story, “ARM” takes the focus away from the organleggers and into more speculative territory. When the developer of a new technology is found dead Gil and ARM are faced with two mysteries. The murder of the developer and how the new technology will affect the world at large.

The technology is benign, however, like all technologies, it has harmful applications. When does the harm outweight the benefit? And who decides? Niven is not anti-technology but he does expect people to understand the risks and to act accordingly.

“The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton” is a good collection of SF dectective stories, however, they are a better examination of how society can oppress in the name of ‘good’. Gil Hamilton is an agent of oppression but an uneasy one. He feels he’s on the side of right but his definition ‘right’ is challenged.

Niven receives a lot of credit as a writer of well constructed SF of big ideas and adventures. He doesn’t receive enough credit for his social commentary. “The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton” shows just how well Niven understands society and how it evolves. This collection will appeal to a wide range of readers from fans to hard SF to people who enjoy social SF. “The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton” may surprise you.

#BookReview #LarryNiven #SF #TheLongArmOfGilHamilton

And I learned today, #larryniven is still alive.

Half price books finds - The Fantasy Trip (missing one of the books), and Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven - Found this the day after I found out about this series - so looking forward to reading it.
The Fantasy Trip just looked interesting to me, and seem like a good price even thou it is missing one of the books.

#HalfPriceBooks #LarryNiven #KnownSpace #TheFantasyTrip #TFT #HPB #RPG

THE INTEGRAL TREES (1984)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 28" x 38"

Being suspended in space, floating unencumbered yet in control of one's flight, is as close to pure freedom as I can imagine. 1/4

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #illustration #larryniven

DESTINY'S ROAD (1991)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 40"

After painting 6 concepts in an effort to distill Larry Niven's novel into one image, I settled on a mountaintop perspective that gave me the chance to offer an aerial view of the road and its environs. 1/6

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #larryniven

#LarryNiven 's "The Schumann Computer" (part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Draco_Tavern ), written in 1979, tells the story of an entrepreneur given the plans to a self-aware supercomputer. He and several of his friends invest their life fortunes into the device. As the device continues to hint that it is ever so close to solving all of the world's problems, the entrepreneur and his friends exhaust themselves and their fortunes, investing progressively more time and resources into the device. Finally, the device achieves enlightenment and decides to shut itself off permanently. Returning to his old job as a bartender, the entrepreneur learns that this happens with every AI that is built, and that the alien who gifted him the plans is known across the galaxy as a notorious prankster.

Fun story, huh?

'There was a sound like two lead doors being slapped together, with the ship between them. The pressure eased. Kzanol got to his feet and peered out the rear window at the incandescent cloud that had been his fusor. A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it's going to betray you--

The brain board thudded.

He read, "Time to recharge battery:" followed by the spiral hieroglyph, the sign of infinity.'

- #LarryNiven "World of Ptavvs'

'He typed: "How long to recharge the battery?"

The brain board thudded almost at once. But Kzanol was never to know the answer.

Suddenly a blinding light shone through the back window. Kzanol's chair flattened into a couch, a loud musical note rang, and there was pressure. Terrible pressure. The ship wasn't ever supposed to use that high an acceleration. It lasted for about five seconds. Then-- '

- #LarryNiven , "World of Ptavvs"

Al Caffè del Cappellaio Matto: La mano che generò l'universo

https://www.lospaziobianco.it/alcaffedelcappellaiomatto/la-mano-che-genero-luniverso/?feed_id=6737&_unique_id=6723eac997fd6

Secondo una leggenda dei Guardiani di Oa non è possibile osservare l'inizio dell'Universo. Sarà la stessa cosa anche per il nostro universo?

#astronomia #BigBang #GeorgePerez #GilKane #JohnBroome #JohnByrne #KurtBusiek #LarryNiven #radiazionecoscmicadifondo #StephenHawking #universo

Cool resale shop find. A fun if obscure Larry Niven book in hardcover.
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#LarryNiven

@kleine_helden Von #LarryNiven bis #DoctorWho, von #TimeTravellersWife über #AgeOfAdaline bis #Continuum mag ich #Zeitreisen in Buch und Film. Schwierig finde ich es tatsächlich im #Rollenspiel ausserhalb eines Fewshots: Eine Kampagnenwelt wie ProjektMyra kann das zu leicht in der Konsistenz beschädigen, wenn es nicht als Traumreise eingefangen wird. Und ja, die Erfahrung haben wir gemacht. (EDIT: Sehr gerne war ich DoctorWho-TTRPG Spielerin, eine #DWAITS und eine #SavageWorlds Kampagne #pnpde

BEOWULF'S CHILDREN (1995)
Watercolor and Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27" x 36"

This sequel to THE LEGACY OF HEOROT provided a fascinating opportunity to explore the alien ecology of Tau Ceti.

Cover illustration for the book by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes (TOR)

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/beowulfs-children/

#sciencefiction #sff #scifi #scifiart #illustration #larryniven #jerrypournelle #stevenbarnes

Kiddo embarking on his first #LarryNiven #ScienceFiction novel. Started him out with World of Ptavvs, first published in 1966.

I was finally able to complete the Ringworld cycle via resale... and I consider Protector as important filler.
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#RingWorld
#LarryNiven

Finished (re)reading #LarryNiven's #Ringworld for the first time in 10 years, in preparation to read #RingworldEngineers. Probably the first time I've read a book cover to cover in... Well about 10 years. It's nice to get back on old (good) habits!

#reading #bookstodon #hardscifi

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/07/09/harnessing-the-full-potential-of-science-fiction/
Found an interesting talk on science fiction and how it might help with the meaning crisis. I focused on the last portion because it felt relevant to me in particular. Maybe some others can identify.
#Books, #Culture, #Science, #ChinaMieville, #DamienWalters, #Fantasy, #Futurism, #HardScienceFiction, #HugoAwards, #IsaacArthur, #JeffVandermeer, #JohnCWright, #JohnVervaeke, #LarryNiven, #Mythology, #NKJemisin, #SciFi, #Science, #sciencefiction #SF

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

@[email protected] I’m a fan of #LarryNiven’s #KnownSpace universe. Its depiction of “#OrganLegging” was *not* supposed to be an instruction manual

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/03/25/on-being-a-different-kind-of-sci-fi-guy/
Why I'm always out of sync with other sci fi fans: Lots and lots of books.
#ArthurClarke, #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce, #HalClement, #IsaacAsimov, #JerryPournelle, #LarryNiven, #RobertHeinlein, #SciFi, #ScienceFiction, #SF, #StarTrek, #TheDaniels, #TheExpanse, #ThePeripheral, #TheodoreSturgeon, #WilliamGibson, #LegendaryPinkDots

#LarryNiven​s #KnownSpace has the galaxy core exploding, sending a radiation shockwave that'll kill anything in 20.000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Core

The species most kwown for being cowards (Pierson's Puppeteers) runs away. While mankind continues as always. Simply ignoring the problem for the time being.

Leading to the following:

> "Maybe, it's humans who are the cowards, at the core."

There's some analogy to how we (don't) handle #ClimateChange somwhere…

Neutron Star is a 1968 short story collection which contains some of Larry Niven’s earliest Known Space Stories.

A good introduction to the Known Space tales. There’s a strong hard SF element, there are touches of humour and there’s danger and adventure.

Old-fashioned high-concept hard SF but with plenty of characteristic Larry Niven touches. Great stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/09/larry-nivens-neutron-star.html

#hardSF #sciencefiction #scifi #LarryNiven #KnownSpace #vintagescifi #retroscifi

A Gift from Earth, an early (1968) Larry Niven Known Space novel. He's thought of as hard SF but in this case he's also interested in the social and political implications of technology. This is also a dystopian novel of sorts.

Interesting as an SF novel in which faster-than-light travel is impossible. The setting is bizarre- a plateau 40 miles above the surface of an otherwise uninhabitable planet.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2019/05/larry-nivens-gift-from-earth.html

#LarryNiven #KnownSpace #scifi #sciencefiction #sf #hardsf

Okay folks, help me out! See the bracket below? We are voting for the upper right four options.

You can access the poll by clicking my profile and then the pinned toot. Or you can access it via this link (if you're already on Mastodon.Social): https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109462626719773768

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #scifi

Time now for the THIRD #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera series #poll

VOTE BELOW!!

Poll One: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109379340476225064
Poll Two: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109419498380717272

WHICH OF THESE FOUR IS THE BEST (IYHO)??
#ZonesOfThought by #VernorVinge

#Honorverse by #DavidWeber

#Foundation by #IsaacAsimov

#KnownSpace (includ. #ManKzinWars) by #LarryNiven

BOOST THIS! Add your comments too!

NOTE: If you are on another instance than mine & have trouble voting, search for my name/address, find the poll and try voting.

@lilcoppertop @bookstodon Ooh, I'll play!

Sad: #TheNightOcean by #PaulLaFarge

Hopeful: #PostOffice by #CharlesBukowski

Nostalgic: #Ringworld by #LarryNiven

Fearful or Scared: #AliceKnot by #BlakeButler

Bonus Answer: #REAMDE by #NealStephenson