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Laurence van Cott Niven, American Science Fiction writer. b 1938 "I wrote for a solid year and collected nothing but rejection slips" Larry Ni...

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skip to main | skip to sidebar This blog comments on a variety of technology news, trends, and products and how they connect. I'm in Red Hat's cloud product strategy group in my day job although I cover a broader set of topics here. This is a personal blog; the opinions are mine alone. Sunday, October 25, 2020 This is an update to 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels. It's mostly an addition of 30 more authors (many from outside the "big SF names") but I also made some other tweaks.  I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories ...

Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab A cursory glance at the genre makes it clear that Randall Garrett did not invent Belters, those stalwarts of the asteroid belt. Examples abound in older SF, in the works of Smith, Heinlein, and Leinster. But Randall Garrett’s Belter stories seem to have been the strongest influence on Larry Niven, who lifted the Belter culture wholesale for his Known Space series. After this, Niven’s Belters seem to have had the greatest influence on later authors. But enough literary history! Let’s just note that the Belt and the riches it might hold are irresistible for ...