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This sounds like a load of BS, and its only source is "boingboing.net".. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.107.82 ( talk) 00:13, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Niven likes to talk about himself a lot. Surely someone who has the books or the magazine articles can expand the bio, and detail his work for NASA and the US govt. Niven was on the team that invented Star Wars (SDI) when Reagan invented it. Someone out there must have the hardcopies of everything he said in the 80's and 90's. Would a link to Space.com be enough? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.80.228 ( talk) 19:52, 15 October 2008 (UTC) I strongly disagree
FYI. Ikip ( talk) 23:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Don't know the right way to broach this, but the megastructure known as Halo is emphatically not a Ringworld. It's very clearly an Orbital of the Banks variety. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.188.147.34 ( talk) 13:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Is there one?
I remember adding information to the Fleet of Worlds articles years ago that seems to have been deleted. I'm kind of a hard core fan of Niven with 30+ years and tons of knowledge and I can see and appreciate the humor and the retcons in the current trilogy. Seeing as how Niven never intended to write anything in Known Space after Ringworld until in his own words "forced to" by the fans, readers of the new series should not be surprised that what he wrote in the 60's & 70's needs to be "updated" to make the series coherent.
When I clicked on the "Official" web site, I was sent to a web site which was self described as a fan site for Larry Niven. Should such a site be described as an "official" web site? -- Fredrik Coulter ( talk) 19:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Template:Larry Niven is not to be found at each article in the template. I may do this, but its worth anyones time to add the template to each article. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:30, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
There's something wrong with this sentence. I'm not even sure what it means, nor that it belongs in the opener. Does anyone have strong feelings about it? Can you fix it? I'm thinking about just dropping it. Doceddi ( talk) 12:59, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
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This sounds like a load of BS, and its only source is "boingboing.net".. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.107.82 ( talk) 00:13, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Niven likes to talk about himself a lot. Surely someone who has the books or the magazine articles can expand the bio, and detail his work for NASA and the US govt. Niven was on the team that invented Star Wars (SDI) when Reagan invented it. Someone out there must have the hardcopies of everything he said in the 80's and 90's. Would a link to Space.com be enough? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.80.228 ( talk) 19:52, 15 October 2008 (UTC) I strongly disagree
FYI. Ikip ( talk) 23:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Don't know the right way to broach this, but the megastructure known as Halo is emphatically not a Ringworld. It's very clearly an Orbital of the Banks variety. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.188.147.34 ( talk) 13:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Is there one?
I remember adding information to the Fleet of Worlds articles years ago that seems to have been deleted. I'm kind of a hard core fan of Niven with 30+ years and tons of knowledge and I can see and appreciate the humor and the retcons in the current trilogy. Seeing as how Niven never intended to write anything in Known Space after Ringworld until in his own words "forced to" by the fans, readers of the new series should not be surprised that what he wrote in the 60's & 70's needs to be "updated" to make the series coherent.
When I clicked on the "Official" web site, I was sent to a web site which was self described as a fan site for Larry Niven. Should such a site be described as an "official" web site? -- Fredrik Coulter ( talk) 19:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Template:Larry Niven is not to be found at each article in the template. I may do this, but its worth anyones time to add the template to each article. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:30, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
There's something wrong with this sentence. I'm not even sure what it means, nor that it belongs in the opener. Does anyone have strong feelings about it? Can you fix it? I'm thinking about just dropping it. Doceddi ( talk) 12:59, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Larry Niven/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
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