{"id":214307,"date":"2025-05-19T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/an-interview-with-larry-niven-ringworld-author-and-sci-fi-legend"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:08:07","slug":"an-interview-with-larry-niven-ringworld-author-and-sci-fi-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/an-interview-with-larry-niven-ringworld-author-and-sci-fi-legend","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Larry Niven \u2014 Ringworld author and sci-fi legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9ocufNQJJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Larry Niven is one of the biggest names in the history of science fiction. His 1970 novel Ringworld is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, but he has also written a whole space-fleet-load of novels and short stories over the years, including A World Out of Time.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist sci-fi reviewer Emily H. Wilson caught up with him via Zoom at his home in Los Angeles recently, where he discussed Ringworld, his start in sci-fi, his favourite work over the years, his current projects, and whether he thinks humankind will ever leave this solar system.<br \/> \u2013<br \/> Learn more \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480167-an-interview-with-larry-niven-ringworld-author-and-sci-fi-legend\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480167-an-interview-wi\u2026fi-legend\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<br \/> Official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP<\/a><br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA<\/a><br \/> LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About New Scientist:<br \/> New Scientist was founded in 1956 for \u201call those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences\u201d. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world\u2019s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/an-interview-with-larry-niven-ringworld-author-and-sci-fi-legend\">Continue reading \u201cAn interview with Larry Niven \u2014 Ringworld author and sci-fi legend\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Niven is one of the biggest names in the history of science fiction. His 1970 novel Ringworld is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, but he has also written a whole space-fleet-load of novels and short stories over the years, including A World Out of Time. New Scientist sci-fi reviewer Emily [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}