Larry Niven Reading Order

37 books (1966–2026)

Start with Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1966, the first of 37 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1966 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dangerous Visions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Nineteenth Series 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ten Tomorrows 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1974 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Antigrav 1975Buy 🇺🇸
8	Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact 1979Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best of All Possible Worlds 1980Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983Buy 🇺🇸
12	Berserker Base 1985Buy 🇺🇸
13	Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
14	Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds 1987Buy 🇺🇸
15	Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Drabble Project 1988Buy 🇺🇸
17	Alien Sex 1990Buy 🇺🇸
18	Time Machines 1997Buy 🇺🇸
19	Armageddons 1999Buy 🇺🇸
20	We Could Do Worse: A Millennial Collection of Alternate Histories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
21	Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, July/August 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
22	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
23	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
24	Analog, September 2002 2004Buy 🇺🇸
25	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸
26	Space Cadets 2006Buy 🇺🇸
27	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	Under Cover of Darkness 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Assassin and Other Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	Multiverse 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Best of Galaxy's Edge Magazine 2013-2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
32	Worst Contact 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	Infinite Stars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	Space Pioneers 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	Infinite Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 42 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2020)

Start with Bowl of Heaven and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bowl of Heaven 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shipstar 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Glorious 2020Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1981–2011)

Start with Dream Park, the first of 4 books in the Dream Park series.

#	Title
1	Dream Park 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Barsoom Project 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	California Voodoo Game / The Voodoo Game 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Moon Maze Game 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2000–2005)

Start with The Burning City and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Burning City 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Burning Tower 2005Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1987–2020)

Start with The Legacy of Heorot, the first of 4 books in the Heorot series.

#	Title
1	The Legacy of Heorot 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Beowulf's Children / The Dragons of Heorot 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Secret of Black Ship Island 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Starborn and Godsons 2020Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1975–2009)

Start with Inferno and read in order.

#	Title
1	Inferno 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Escape from Hell 2009Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1980–2001)

Start with Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth), the first of 19 books in the Isaac Asimov's Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far(By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own(By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1966–1995)

Start with World of Ptavvs, the first of 9 books in the Known Space series.

#	Title
1	World of Ptavvs 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Gift from Earth 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Neutron Star 1968Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton 1969Buy 🇺🇸
5	Protector 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tales of Known Space 1975Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Patchwork Girl 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Crashlander 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Flatlander 1995Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

#	Title
1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1978–2016)

Start with The Magic Goes Away, the first of 5 books in the Magic Goes Away series.

#	Title
1	The Magic Goes Away 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Magic May Return 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	More Magic 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Time of the Warlock 1984Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Seascape Tattoo(With: Steven Barnes) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (1988–2019)

Start with The Man-Kzin Wars, the first of 21 books in the Man-Kzin Wars series.

#	Title
1	The Man-Kzin Wars 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Man-Kzin Wars II(With: S.M. Stirling,Jerry Pournelle) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Man-Kzin Wars III 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Man-Kzin Wars IV(By: S.M. Stirling) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Children's Hour(By: S.M. Stirling,Jerry Pournelle) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Man-Kzin Wars V(By: Jerry Pournelle) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	Man-Kzin Wars VI(By: Gregory Benford,Mark O. Martin) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Man-Kzin Wars VII(With: Gregory Benford,Paul Chafe) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Darker Geometry(By: Gregory Benford) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best of All Possible Wars(By: S.M. Stirling,Robert Sheckley) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	Man-Kzin Wars IX(By: Jim Baen) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	The House of the Kzinti(By: Jerry Pournelle) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War 2003Buy 🇺🇸
15	Man-Kzin Wars XI(By: Matthew Harrington) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Destiny's Forge(By: Paul Chafe) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Man-Kzin Wars XII 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Man-Kzin Wars XIII 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Man-Kzin Wars XIV 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	Treasure Planet(With: Hal Colebatch,Jessica Q. Fox) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Man-Kzin Wars XV 2019Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1974–2010)

Start with The Mote in God's Eye and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Mote in God's Eye 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gripping Hand / The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Outies(By: Jennifer R. Pournelle) 2010Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1970–2012)

Start with Ringworld, the first of 5 books in the Ringworld series.

#	Title
1	Ringworld 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ringworld Engineers 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ringworld Throne 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ringworld's Children 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fate of Worlds(With: Edward M. Lerner) 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2014–2015)

Start with Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One and read in order.

5 books (2007–2012)

Start with Fleet of Worlds, the first of 5 books in the Ringworld Prequel / Fleet of the Worlds series.

#	Title
1	Fleet of Worlds 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Juggler of Worlds 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Destroyer of Worlds 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Betrayer of Worlds 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fate of Worlds 2012Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1964–1989)

Start with The Coldest Place, the first of 7 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

17 books (1968–2017)

Start with All the Myriad Ways, the first of 17 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	All the Myriad Ways 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shape of Space 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	Inconstant Moon 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Flight of the Horse 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Hole in Space 1974Buy 🇺🇸
6	Convergent Series 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	Limits 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	N-Space 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Playgrounds of the Mind 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale(With: John Byrne,Matt Webb) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
11	Three Books of Known Space 1996Buy 🇺🇸
12	Scatterbrain 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Magic Goes Away Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Draco Tavern 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Stars and Gods 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best of Larry Niven 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Madness from the Inconstant Moon 2017Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1970–2013)

Start with The Flying Sorcerers(With: David Gerrold), the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Flying Sorcerers(With: David Gerrold) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lucifer's Hammer(With: Jerry Pournelle) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Oath of Fealty(With: Jerry Pournelle) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Descent of Anansi(With: Steven Barnes) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	Footfall(With: Jerry Pournelle) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Achilles' Choice(With: Steven Barnes) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fallen Angels(With: Jerry Pournelle,Michael Flynn) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Destiny's Road 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Rainbow Mars 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	Saturn's Race(With: Steven Barnes) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	Building Harlequin's Moon(With: Brenda Cooper) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Goliath Stone(With: Matthew Joseph Harrington) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2013)

Start with Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 1: 1979-1981(By: Rich Handley,Sharman DiVono,Thomas Warkentin) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 1: 1979-1981(By: Rich Handley,Sharman DiVono,Thomas Warkentin) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Trek: The Newspaper Strip Volume 2(With: Martin Pasko,Gerry Conway,Rich Handley,Sharman DiVono) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1974–1981)

Start with Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey), the first of 8 books in the Stellar series.

#	Title
1	Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stellar #2(With: Isaac Asimov,Howard Waldrop,Clifford D. Simak,Jack C. Haldeman II,Steven Utley,Hal Clement,James White,Richard S. Simak,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Patrick G. Conner) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stellar Short Novels(By: Gordon R. Dickson,Andrew J. Offutt,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Shawn Oueinsteen) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stellar #3(By: Jack L. Chalker,Clifford D. Simak,Gene DeWeese,Jeffrey M. Wallman,Charles W. Runyon,Mildred Downey Broxon,Henry Melton,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Arsen Darney,B. Lee Cooper,Larry S. Haverkos,Steve Utley,Bill Starr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stellar #4(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stellar #5(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stellar #6(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Stellar #7(By: Terry Carr,Leanne Frahm,Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1981Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2011–2015)

Start with Tau Ceti(By: Kevin J. Anderson,Steven Savile), the first of 8 books in the Stellar Guild series.

#	Title
1	Tau Ceti(By: Kevin J. Anderson,Steven Savile) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Train(By: Rachel Turtledove) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	When the Blue Shift Comes(By: Robert Silverberg,Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	New Under the Sun(By: Nancy Kress) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Red Tide(With: Matthew Joseph Harrington,Brad R. Torgersen) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Aethers of Mars(By: Eric Flint) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Inci(By: Mike Resnick,Tina Gower) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Wishing on a Star(By: Jody Lynn Nye) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1979–2015)

Start with The Locusts(With: Steven Barnes) and read in order.

3 books (1976–1987)

Start with A World Out of Time and read in order.

#	Title
1	A World Out of Time 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Integral Trees 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Smoke Ring 1987Buy 🇺🇸