jam@dcl-cs.UUCP (John A. Mariani) (09/12/85)
In article <611@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X) writes: > >Seems to me this "Niven has painted himself into a >corner" argument is a crock, at least from Niven's >point of view. Why can't he write a novel or some >short stories occuring during, say, the first Man/Kzin >war? What about some new Gil Hamilton stories? I'm >sure these would be well received. > >Certainly, he's probably constrained from furthering >the history and mythos of Known Space, but I hardly >think this prevents him from writing about it entirely. > Here comes another uninformed opinion from me. I don't know Larry Niven but for about 5 years he was unarguably my favourite SF author so I do know his work (not in the encyclopeadic way many net.sf-lovers do, as recent postings have shown -- boy, am I jealous!) so .. I feel Mr. Niven does NOT want to write stories within the existing framework; he wants to do NEW stuff (as the Integral Trees has shown). I think the last thing he would want to do is hack out new Gil Hamilton stories (unless, of course, he had a good idea). And, as Scott "rumoured", Niven's had a "dry" period. Still, as I said at the start, this is all guesswork; could be Scott's right. I'm sure we'd all love to read new Known Space stuff -- even if it was all in the existing framework. P.S. Can I add my plea for a re-posting of "Down In Flames"? Sounds as if Niven SHOULD write it -- even if it was "set in a parallel Known Space" -- who cares? If its a GOOD STORY that we'd enjoy, he should write it! "Road runner once; road runner twice; I'm in love with this feeling now" -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!jam DARPA: jam%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: jam@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 ext 4467 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK.