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Magic Goes Away #1-2
The Time of the Warlock
Contains:
Not Long Before the End
What Good is a Glass Dagger?
The Magic Goes Away
Unfinished Story #1
and:
The Magic May Return
Notes for a Series of Stories to be Set in the Fantasy World of The Magic Goes Away
Not Long Before the End
What Good is a Glass Dagger?
The Magic Goes Away
Unfinished Story #1
and:
The Magic May Return
Notes for a Series of Stories to be Set in the Fantasy World of The Magic Goes Away
183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Larry Niven
688 books3,316 followersLaurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.
Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource.
Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner.
He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969.
Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. In 1972, for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol.
Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early Kzin story The Soft Weapon. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.
He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.
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Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource.
Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner.
He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969.
Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. In 1972, for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol.
Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early Kzin story The Soft Weapon. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.
He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/larryn...
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 25, 2024
Great collection
The complete storyline of Niven's Warlock series of short stories. They are all separate stories originally intended for separate publication, but they all tie into a nicely cohesive novel. Entertaining wizardry you can take a small snippet at a time.
Not sure about the afterword notes, which appear to be guidelines for others to write in this world line, because I don't know of any further work in this line, and all these are attributed to Niven...
The complete storyline of Niven's Warlock series of short stories. They are all separate stories originally intended for separate publication, but they all tie into a nicely cohesive novel. Entertaining wizardry you can take a small snippet at a time.
Not sure about the afterword notes, which appear to be guidelines for others to write in this world line, because I don't know of any further work in this line, and all these are attributed to Niven...
February 23, 2022
A lot of magical notes at the back.
A logical look at magic and very consistent in it's depiction. A nameless warlock moves thru life knowing many ugly secrets, and fighting clever enemies. Plenty of magic thoughts.
A logical look at magic and very consistent in it's depiction. A nameless warlock moves thru life knowing many ugly secrets, and fighting clever enemies. Plenty of magic thoughts.
January 17, 2018
All of the Niven-written "The Magic Goes Away" stories in one book. Marvelous!
July 7, 2022
I'd read most of these stories in high school. Again, I enjoyed them. I don't know why this illustrator was chosen for this edition. He wasn't good.
August 24, 2014
Biden's unknown magic instead of Known Space
Biden's unknown magic instead of Known Space
The editing and story lines all fit together like all of Larry Niven's works.
As always new twists are found to have been there all along we just didn't see them.
Biden's unknown magic instead of Known Space
The editing and story lines all fit together like all of Larry Niven's works.
As always new twists are found to have been there all along we just didn't see them.
January 2, 2014
The prose is a little dry and anachronistic, and the character development is light for my taste, but it's full of cool ideas.
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