![]() and not just the tame, dying magic of Niven's stories, but the original wild, abundant magic the stories claimed Earth initially had. Laurence van Cott Niven was born to Waldemar van Cott Niven and Lucy Estelle Dohenyborn on April 30 th, 1938, in Los Angles, California. what the heck? It wouldn't necessarily take long to figure out what the deal is with Earth being a dead zone, but it would cause some interesting political upheaval as suddenly the sparse space colonies that nobody thought were worth anything and barely even worth the effort became industrial powerhouses as the only place where magic works. ![]() Tags: author, larry-niven, niven, science-fiction 3 likes Like Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes. ![]() (It would be interesting if he ever wrote the story set in this universe, after the modern times, in which humanity gets out to space, and, uh, hey guyz, magic kinda. The best books of Larry Niven (either with or without co-authors) flag All Votes Add Books To This List 37 books 29 voters list created May 28th, 2012 by DaveA (votes). The modern world is mundane not because magic is impossible, but because it was all used up. ![]() While Larry Niven is most famous for his hard science fiction, in the traditional sense of the term, he also has a fantasy universe, with a decent introduction at In this universe, magic is a finite quantity, which gets used up. ![]()
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