Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Known Space alien species, Known Space characters, Known Space locations, Known Space stories, Ringworld, Beowulf Shaeffer, Man-Kzin Wars, Pierson's Puppeteers, Grendel, Procrustes, Flatlander, Pak Protector, A Gift from Earth, Thrint, Organlegging, Neutron Star, The Borderland of Sol, General Products, At the Core, Inconstant Star, Hominids of the Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu, World of Ptavvs, Jinx, Speaker-to-Animals, Gil Hamilton, Elf Sternberg, Teela Brown, Bandersnatch, Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld's Children, Outsider, Long Shot, Tnuctip, The Soft Weapon, The Ringworld Throne, Wirehead, Jotoki, Grogs, Rishathra, Belter, Crashlander, Juggler of Worlds, Starseed, Ulf Reichstein-Markham, The Jigsaw Man, Destroyer of Worlds, Nessus, Lucas Garner, The Defenseless Dead, The Handicapped, Tyra Nordbo, Buford Early, Kdatlyno, ARM, Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War, The Patchwork Girl, Peter Nordbo, Betrayer of Worlds, Kzinti Patriarch, Death by Ecstasy, Lit Shaeffer, Pierin, Fringe War, Tree-of-Life, Nick Sohl, Alice Jordan, Ringworld series. Excerpt: Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series. The epithet "Known Space" is an in-universe term that refers to a relatively small part of the galaxy centered around Earth. In the future which the series depicts, ranging from a few centuries to about a millennium from now, this region has been explored by humans and a number of its worlds have been colonized. On other worlds aliens have been encountered, contact has been made with alien species such as the two-headed Pierson's Puppeteers and the aggressive felinoid Kzinti. The fictional universe is also the hom...
