| Date | Title | Series | Other Authors | Setting | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Coldest Place (short story) | Known Space | Niven's first published short story, published in Worlds of If in Dec 1964. Niven was paid $25[1] | ||
| 1965 | World of Ptavvs (short story) | Known Space | Expanded into World of Ptavvs (novel) in 1966 | ||
| 1965 | Wrong-Way Street (short story) | Published by Galaxy Science Fiction. | |||
| 1965 | One Face (short story) | Not a Known Space story, though it does contain concepts that later became part of Known Space | |||
| 1965 | Becalmed in Hell (short story) | Known Space | Published by F&SF in July 1965. It is a sequel to The Coldest Place (short story) | ||
| 1966 | Eye of an Octopus (short story) | Known Space | Discovery of Martians | ||
| 1966 | The Warriors | Man-Kzin Wars | .. | Known Space | The 1st Man-Kzin war story |
| 1966 | Bordered in Black | First appearance of the Hyperspace "blind spot" in a story | |||
| 1966 | By Mind Alone (short story) | ||||
| 1966 | World of Ptavvs (novel) | Known Space | Niven's first published novel, based upon a short story of the same name published the year before. | ||
| 1966 | How the Heroes Die (short story) | Known Space | |||
| 1966 | Neutron Star (short story) | Known Space | First Beowulf Shaeffer story
first story set in the hyperdrive era of Known Space. | ||
| 1966 | At the Core (short story) | Known Space | Beowulf Shaeffer discovers the core of the galaxy is exploding. First appearance of Long Shot | ||
| 1966 | At the Bottom of a Hole (short story) | Known Space | Martians | ||
| 1966 | A Relic of the Empire (short story) | Known Space | 1st story that links the worlds of Luke Garner & Beowulf Shaeffer | ||
| 1967 | The Soft Weapon (short story) | Known Space | 1st appearance of the Pierson's Puppeteers, 1st appearance of Nessus, story later adapted as The Slaver Weapon for Star Trek: The Animated Series | ||
| 1967 | Flatlander (short story) | Known Space | 1st appearance of the Outsiders | ||
| 1967 | The Long Night (short story) | Known Space | a.k.a. Convergent Series | ||
| 1967 | The Ethics of Madness (short story) | Known Space | 1st appearance of Plateau
but inconsistent with the Known Space timeline. Chronologically this is the last story set in pre-hyperdrive Known Space. | ||
| 1967 | Safe at Any Speed (short story) | Known Space | The "Last" Known Space story[2] | ||
| 1967 | The Adults | Known Space | The first part of Protector (novel) | ||
| 1967 | The Jigsaw Man | Known Space | First organ transplant story | ||
| 1967 | The Handicapped | Known Space | |||
| 1968 | Slowboat Cargo | Known Space | Serialisation of A Gift From Earth (novel) | ||
| 1968 | The Deceivers | Known Space | A.K.A. "Intent to Deceive" | ||
| 1968 | Grendel | Known Space | |||
| 1968 | Neutron Star (Collection) | Known Space | Contents:
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| 1968 | Dry Run | Crime story | |||
| 1968 | The Deadlier Weapon | Crime story | |||
| 1968 | There is a Tide | Known Space | first appearance of Louis Wu | ||
| 1968 | Wait it Out | Known Space | |||
| 1968 | For a Foggy Night | Time Travel/Parallel Universe story | |||
| 1968 | Like Banquo's Ghost | ||||
| 1968 | A Gift From Earth (novel) | Known Space | |||
| 1968 | The Meddler (short story) | ||||
| 1968 | All the Myriad Ways (short story) | ||||
| 1969 | Down in Flames (short story) | Known Space | Outline of a story that was never written, from a conversation with Norman Spinrad - the end of Known Space | ||
| 1969 | The Organleggers (short story) | Known Space | |||
| 1969 | The Shape of Space (collection) |
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| 1969 | Not Long Before The End (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | A short story that can be seen as a prequel to the novella The Magic Goes Away. Originally published in F&SF, April 1969 | |
| 1969 | Unfinished Story (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in F&SF, December 1969 | |
| 1969 | Passerby (short story) | Léshy | |||
| 1970 | Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex | Superman's sex life on Earth - no, really. | |||
| 1970 | Leviathan (short story) | Svetz | |||
| 1970 | Bird in the Hand (short story) | Svetz | Svetz, cars and Rocs. | ||
| 1970 | Ringworld (novel) | Ringworld | Known Space | Nebula Award, 1970 Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1971 | |
| 1971 | All The Myriad Ways (Collection) | The Magic Universe, Known Space, Superman, Dentistry
Various really... |
Contents:
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| 1971 | The Flying Sorcerers (novel) | David Gerrold | Previously serialized as "The Misspelled Magishun", published by Ballantine | ||
| 1971 | The Last Necronomicon (short story) | Published by fanzine, APA-L 315 #4 | |||
| 1971 | Rammer (short story) | The State | Later used as the first chapter of A World Out of Time (novel) | ||
| 1972 | [[Cloak of Anarchy (short story) | Known Space | |||
| The Fourth Profession (short story) | Léshy | "Monks and bartenders" - apparently | |||
| 1972 | What Good is a Glass Dagger? (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in F&SF, September 1972 | |
| 1973 | Inconstant Moon (Collection) | Known Space | |||
| 1973 | The Defenseless Dead (short story) | Known Space | Gil Hamilton and corpsicles | ||
| 1973 | The Flash Crowd (short story) | About teleportation, instantaneous travel | |||
| 1973 | The Alibi Machine (short story) | About teleportation, instantaneous travel | |||
| 1973 | All the Bridges Rusting (short story) | About teleportation, instantaneous travel | |||
| 1973 | Protector (novel) | Known Space | Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1974 | ||
| 1973 | The Flight of the Horse (Collection) | ||||
| 1974 | A Hole in Space (Collection) | ||||
| 1974 | The Mote in God's Eye (novel) | Moties | Jerry Pournelle | CoDominium | Hugo, Nebula and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1975 |
| 1975 | All the Myriad Ways (Graphic novel) | Howard Chaykin | Marvel Comics' black-and-white anthology magazine "Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction" | ||
| 1975 | Not Long before the End (Graphic novel) | Doug Moench Vicente Alcazar | Marvel Comics' black-and-white anthology magazine "Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction" | ||
| 1975 | Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (Collection) | Known Space | |||
| 1976 | The Magic Goes Away (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in Odyssey, summer 1976. | |
| 1976 | A World Out of Time (novel) | The State | Locus SF Award nominee | ||
| 1976 | Inferno (novel) | Dante | Jerry Pournelle | Hugo and Nebula Awards nominee, 1976 | |
| 1976 | The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (Collection) | Known Space | |||
| 1977 | Neutron Star (Collection) | Known Space | |||
| 1978 | The Magic Goes Away (novella) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published as a Trade Paperback by Ace Books. | |
| 1979 | Convergent Series (Collection) | ||||
| 1979 | The Ringworld Engineers (novel) | Ringworld | Known Space | ||
| 1980 | The Patchwork Girl (novel) | Known Space | |||
| 1981 | Dream Park (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | Locus SF Award nominee, 1982 | |
| 1981 | The Magic May Return (compilation) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published as a Trade Paperback by Ace Books. | |
| 1981 | Talisman | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in F&SF, November 1981 | |
| 1982 | Oath of Fealty (novel) | Jerry Pournelle | |||
| 1982 | The Descent of Anansi (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | ||
| 1982 | The Lion in His Attic (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in F&SF, July 1982 | |
| 1984 | Berserker Base: A Collaborative novel (Novel) | Poul Anderson Edward Bryant Stephen R. Donaldson Fred Saberhagen Connie Willis Roger Zelazny | |||
| 1984 | More Magic (novel) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | ||
| 1984 | Niven's Laws (novel) | ||||
| 1984 | The Integral Trees (novel) | The State | Nebula Award nominee, 1984, Locus SF Award winner, and Hugo nominee, 1985 | ||
| 1984 | The Time of the Warlock (novel) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | ||
| 1985 | Footfall (novel) | Jerry Pournelle | Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1986 | ||
| 1985 | Limits (Collection) | ||||
| 1986 | The Magic Goes Away (Graphic novel) | Paul Kupperberg | The Magic Universe | DC Comics | |
| 1987 | The Legacy of Heorot (novel) | Steven Barnes Jerry Pournelle | Heorot | ||
| 1987 | The Smoke Ring (novel) | The State | |||
| 1988 | The Man-Kzin Wars (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1989 | Man-Kzin Wars II (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1989 | The Barsoom Project (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | ||
| 1989 | The Wishing Game (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in Aboriginal Science Fiction, May/June 1989 | |
| 1989 | The Portrait of Daryanree the King (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | Originally published in Aboriginal Science Fiction, September/October 1989 1989 | |
| 1990 | A.R.M. (Graphic novel) | Malibu Comics, adaptation of Death By Ecstasy | |||
| 1990 | Cathouse: A novel of the Man Kzin-Wars (Novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Dean Ing | Known Space | Compiles two stories from the first two "Man-Kzin Wars" books and contains no new material |
| 1990 | Man-Kzin Wars III (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1990 | N-Space (Collection) | ||||
| 1991 | Achilles' Choice (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | ||
| 1991 | Death by Ecstasy (Graphic novel) | Adaptation of the Larry Niven Novella | |||
| 1991 | Fallen Angels (novel) | Jerry Pournelle Michael Flynn | |||
| 1991 | Inconstant Star (novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Poul Anderson | Known Space | Compiles two stories from "Man-Kzin Wars" volumes I and III and contains no new material |
| 1991 | Man-Kzin Wars IV (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1991 | Playgrounds of the Mind (Collection) | ||||
| 1991 | The Children's Hour: A novel of the Man-Kzin Wars (Novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Jerry Pournelle | Known Space | Contains some material previously published in "Man-Kzin Wars" volumes II and III |
| 1991 | World of Ptavvs / A Gift From Earth / Neutron Star (Omnibus) | Known Space | |||
| 1992 | Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (Graphic novel) | John Byrne | DC Comics | ||
| 1992 | Man-Kzin Wars V (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1992 | The California Voodoo Game (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | Published in the UK as The Voodoo Game | |
| 1992 | The Voodoo Game (novel) | Steven Barnes | Published in the US as The California Voodoo Game | ||
| 1993 | Bridging the Galaxies (Collection) | ||||
| 1993 | The Gripping Hand (novel) | Moties | Jerry Pournelle | CoDominium | Published in the UK as The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye |
| 1993 | The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye (novel) | Moties | Jerry Pournelle | CoDominium | Published in the US as The Gripping Hand |
| 1994 | Crashlander: The Collected Tales of Beowulf Shaeffer (Collection) | Known Space | |||
| 1994 | Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (Companion Book) | Ringworld | Kevin Stein | Known Space | |
| 1994 | Man-Kzin Wars VI (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1995 | Beowulf's Children (novel) | Steven Barnes Jerry Pournelle | Heorot | Published in the UK as The Dragons of Heorot | |
| 1995 | Flatlander (Collection) | Reprint of The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton | |||
| 1995 | Man-Kzin Wars VII (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1995 | The Dragons of Heorot (novel) | Steven Barnes Jerry Pournelle | Heorot | Published in the US as Beowulf's Children | |
| 1996 | A Darker Geometry (novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Mark O. Martin Gregory Benford | Known Space | Contains some material previously published in "Man-Kzin Wars" volume VII |
| 1996 | The Ringworld Throne (novel) | Ringworld | Known Space | ||
| 1996 | Three Books of Known Space (Omnibus) | Known Space | Reprint of Tales of Known Space (with Madness Has Its Place in place of The Borderland of Sol) bundled with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth. | ||
| 1997 | Destiny's Road (novel) | Heorot | Located in the same universe, events from the first two Heorot novels are briefly mentioned | ||
| 1997 | Lucifer's Hammer (novel) | Jerry Pournelle | Hugo Award nominee, 1978 | ||
| 1998 | Man-Kzin Wars VIII (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1998 | The Best of All Possible Wars: The Best of the Man-Kzin Wars (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 1999 | Rainbow Mars (novel) | ||||
| 2000 | The Burning City (novel) | The Magic Goes Away | Jerry Pournelle | Magic Universe | |
| 2001 | Saturn's Race (novel) | Steven Barnes | Dream Park | ||
| 2002 | Man-Kzin Wars IX (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2002 | The Houses of the Kzinti (novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Dean Ing Jerry Pournelle S. M. Stirling | Known Space | Compiled edition of the previously-published Cathouse and The Children's Hour -contains no new material |
| 2003 | Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (Collection) | ||||
| 2003 | Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (Collection) | ||||
| 2003 | Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (Collection) | ||||
| 2003 | Man-Kzin Wars X (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2003 | Scatterbrain (Collection) | ||||
| 2004 | Chicxulub (short story) | The Magic Universe | Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2004 | ||
| 2004 | Boomerang (short story) | The Magic Universe | Originally published in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy | ||
| 2004 | Ringworld's Children (novel) | Ringworld | Known Space | ||
| 2005 | Building Harlequin's Moon (novel) | Brenda Cooper | |||
| 2005 | Rhinemaidens (short story) | The Magic Goes Away | Magic Universe | Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005 | |
| 2005 | Burning Tower (novel) | The Magic Goes Away | Jerry Pournelle | Magic Universe | |
| 2005 | Man-Kzin Wars XI (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2005 | The Magic Goes Away Collection (Collection) | The Magic Goes Away | The Magic Universe | ||
| 2006 | The Draco Tavern (Collection) | ||||
| 2007 | Destiny's Forge: A Man-Kzin Wars novel (Novel) | Man-Kzin Wars | Paul Chafe | Known Space | |
| 2007 | Fleet of Worlds (novel) | Ringworld companion | Edward M. Lerner | Known Space | |
| 2008 | Juggler of Worlds (novel) | Ringworld companion | Edward M. Lerner | Known Space | |
| 2009 | Destroyer of Worlds (novel) | Ringworld companion | Edward M. Lerner | Known Space | |
| 2009 | Escape From Hell (novel) | Dante | Jerry Pournelle | ||
| 2009 | Man-Kzin Wars XII (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2010 | Betrayer of Worlds (novel) | Ringworld companion | Edward M. Lerner | Known Space | |
| 2010 | Stars and Gods (Collection) | ||||
| 2010 | The Best of Larry Niven (Collection) | ||||
| 2011 | The Moon Maze Game (novel) | Steven Barnes | |||
| 2012 | Bowl of Heaven (novel) | Gregory Benford | |||
| 2012 | Fate of Worlds (novel) | Ringworld companion | Edward M. Lerner | Known Space | |
| 2012 | Man-Kzin Wars XIII (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2013 | Lucifer's Anvil or Samael's Forge (novel) | Jerry Pournelle | In progress as of 2013 (not a sequel to Lucifer's Hammer) | ||
| 2013 | Man-Kzin Wars XIV (Collection) | Man-Kzin Wars | Various | Known Space | |
| 2013 | The Goliath Stone (novel) | Matthew Joseph Harrington | |||
| 2014 | Burning Mountain (novel) | The Magic Goes Away | Jerry Pournelle | Magic Universe | |
| 2014 | Ringworld: The Graphic novel (Graphic Novel) | Robert Mandell Sean Lam | Known Space | Tor | |
| 2014 | Shipstar (novel) | Gregory Benford |