Frases de Larry Niven
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Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer . The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Abril 1938
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Larry Niven: Frases em inglês

“The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.”

Becalmed in Hell (p. 16)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”

Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed

“There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?”

Larry Niven livro Flash Crowd

Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65

“What’s intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge?”

Larry Niven livro Destiny's Road

Fonte: Destiny's Road (1997), Chapter 30, “Hydraulic * Empire” (p. 299)

“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

Larry Niven livro A World Out of Time

Fonte: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)

“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”

Larry Niven livro A World Out of Time

Fonte: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)

“You’re insane. Imagine my amazement.”

Larry Niven livro A World Out of Time

Fonte: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)

“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”

Larry Niven livro The Mote in God's Eye

“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.”
Fonte: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)

“That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”

Larry Niven livro The Borderland of Sol

Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.”
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”

“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)

“Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can’t.”

Larry Niven livro Grendel

Grendel (p. 252)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Was he deadpan because he didn’t care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years?”

Larry Niven livro Grendel

Grendel (p. 251)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.”

Larry Niven livro Grendel

Grendel (p. 248)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)

“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”

Larry Niven livro Protector

Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)

“I knew it long ago: I’m a compulsive teacher, but I can’t teach. The godawful state of today’s education system isn’t what’s stopping me. I lack at least two of the essential qualifications.
I cannot “suffer fools gladly.””

Larry Niven livro N-Space

The smartest of my pupils would get all my attention, and the rest would have to fend for themselves. And I can’t handle being interrupted.
Writing is the answer. Whatever I have to teach, my students will select themselves by buying the book. And nobody interrupts a printed page.
Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 26-27)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

“He's a computer. Perfect memory, rigid logic, no judgment. I forgot. I talked to him like a human being, and now—”

Larry Niven livro A World Out of Time

Fonte: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)

“With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.”

Fonte: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 3, "The Car" (p. 53)

“A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.”

Larry Niven livro A Hole in Space

Fonte: Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974), The Fourth Profession (p. 167)

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