I had a nice chat today on the Larry Niven chat site, which is hosted on The Incompleat Known Space Concordance site. The concordance pages are maintained by Lensman (which reminds me that I need to talk about Doc Smith sometime in the relatively near future). KSC is one of the few concordances (incomplete or otherwise) devoted to SF authors that I know of. I wish a few more dedicated fans would devote themselves to their favorite subject so that Lensman and I would have more concordites to talk to.
Niven has been one of my long time ‘go-to’ guys and my devotion has been recently rewarded with the release of ‘Fleet of Worlds’, (for my review) the most recent Known Space tale, written by Larry in collaboration with Edward M. Lerner. At least one more novel in this sequence is promised.
Larry frequently attends the once-monthly chat (first Saturday of the month) but he is by far not the only interesting attendee. Tonight I was involved in discussion concerning the problems inherent in the military invasion of worlds, gag gifts, website issues and Saturday Night Live (we all agreed that the original cast puts all others to shame).
I’ll post more about Larry’s specific works. In the meantime, check out Lensman’s efforts and maybe give Fleet of Worlds a shot.
(My title this evening references Jerry Pournelle, one of Larry Niven’s long-time collaborators and author extraordinaire in his own right. )
