Known Space Story List

In mid-2003 my friend Ignacio read Protector and wanted a chronological listing of the rest of Larry Niven's Known Space, so he could know in what order to read the stories. Several lists were available on the Internet, but most of them included significant spoilers (often to explain fine details of story placement). This bare-bones list should avoid spoiling anyone. It includes only stories written by Larry Niven, and I believe it is up to date (as of Monday, May 5 2003). I welcome comments and corrections at raja98@pannis.com .

Note: Items in bold italics are the titles of (standalone) novels.

• [First few pages of World of Ptavvs]
• [Flashbacks in “Phssthpok” (opening section of Protector)]
• “The Coldest Place” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Becalmed in Hell” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Wait It Out” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Eye of an Octopus” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “How the Heroes Die” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “The Jigsaw Man” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• World of Ptavvs
• “At the Bottom of a Hole” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Intent to Deceive” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Phssthpok” (opening section of Protector)
• “Death by Ecstasy” (collected in Flatlander)
• “The Defenseless Dead” (collected in Flatlander)
• “ARM” (collected in Flatlander)
• “The Patchwork Girl” (collected in Flatlander)
• “The Woman in Del Rey Crater” (collected in Flatlander)
• “Cloak of Anarchy” (collected in Three Books of Known Space. Also online at larryniven.org)
• “Interlude”, “Vandervecken”, and “Protector” (remaining sections of Protector)
• “The Warriors” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Madness Has Its Place” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• “Choosing Names” (collected in Man-Kzin Wars VIII)
• A Gift from Earth
• “The Ethics of Madness” (collected in Neutron Star)
• “Neutron Star” (collected in Neutron Star and Crashlander)
• “A Relic of Empire” (collected in Neutron Star)
• “At the Core” (collected in Neutron Star and Crashlander)
• “Flatlander” (collected in Neutron Star and Crashlander)
• “The Handicapped” (collected in Neutron Star)
• “Grendel” (collected in Neutron Star and Crashlander)
• “The Borderland of Sol” (collected in Tales of Known Space and Crashlander)
• “Procrustes” (collected in Crashlander)
• “Ghost” (framing story of Crashlander)
• “Fly-By-Night” (collected in Man-Kzin Wars IX; first appeared in Oct/Nov 2000 Asimov's Science Fiction magazine)
• “The Soft Weapon” (collected in Neutron Star)
• “There Is a Tide” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)
• Ringworld
• The Ringworld Engineers
• The Ringworld Throne
• “Safe at Any Speed” (collected in Three Books of Known Space)