num_pages: 242
description: Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...Becalmed in hellHowie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic!Wait it outHe was trapped on Pluto...and all his assets were frozen!The borderland of SolForward possessed the ultimate weapon...but no one would ever see it!The jigsaw manThe organ banks want you...now!Cloak of anarchyThey were free to be anything but violent...but that wasn't enough!— plus eight other great stories in Niven's spectacular cycle of the future...and, special for this volume, a complete Niven bibliography and a detailed chronology of all his Known Space stories!
language: English
title: Tales of Known Space
titlecomplete: Tales of Known Space
characters: Louis Gridley Wu
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Collections, Anthologies, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction
ratings_count: 5869
series: Known Space (Publication Order), Known Space
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette
publisher: Ballantine Books