TY - ABST T1 - Building Harlequin's Moon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturn's Race Y1 - 2000 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and conflict but begins with a flawed eutopia. An apparently ideal island for the world's rich is a base for illegal genetic manipulation and world conquest.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Achilles' Choice Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fallen Angels Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Michael [Francis] Flynn (1947-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Greens produce an anti-technological dystopia.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 684-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oath of Fealty Y1 - 1981 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia presenting the ideas of the Italian architect Paolo Soleri (b. 1919).  An arcology is built in the middle of Los Angeles that is home to 250,000 people and provides for all their needs with security of high priority. Conflict with the rest of the city develops, and the strengths and weaknesses of the arcology as a way of life are revealed. For Soleri's ideas, see, for example, his Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. The community Arcosanti in Arizona was built using his ideas.

PB - Phantasia Press CY - Huntington Woods, MI N1 -

Also published New York: Timescape, 1981. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 436-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cloak of Anarchy" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 89.1 N1 -

Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Gift from Earth Y1 - 1968 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Transplant dystopia showing the power of doctors.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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