Today is the birthday of Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938), science fiction author. He is best-known as Larry Niven author of the novel Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards.
"Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it." - Larry Niven
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream." - Larry Niven
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" - Larry Niven
"Treat your life like something to be sculpted." - Larry Niven
"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad." - Larry Niven
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Icing on the Freight: 1943
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January 1943. "Icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Blue
Island Yard south of Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the
Office of Wa...
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