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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.


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LARRY NIVEN I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
LARRY NIVEN SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is nev...
LARRY NIVEN My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
LARRY NIVEN I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
LARRY NIVEN In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
LARRY NIVEN I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN I love superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
LARRY NIVEN I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can f...
LARRY NIVEN I don't have a strong interest in history.
LARRY NIVEN Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
LARRY NIVEN We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
LARRY NIVEN