Playgrounds of the Mind by Larry Niven

"Playgrounds of the Mind" by Larry Niven.

“Playgrounds of the Mind” by Larry Niven.


Title: Playgrounds of the Mind
Series: Berserker, Draco Tavern, Gil Hamilton, Heorot, Known Space, Magic Goes Away, Ringworld, State, Svetz
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Larry Niven
Cover Artist: David Archer
Interior Artist(s): Ellisa Mitchell
Language: English
Original Publisher: Tor Books
Originally Published: October 1991
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: July 1992
ISBN-10: 0812516958
ISBN-13: 9780812516951
Notes: Second printing.
Contents:
   “Thraxisp: A Memoir”
   “A Teardrop Falls” (Berserker)
   “From Inferno” excerpt
   “Rammer” (State)
   “The Ethics of Madness” excerpt
   “Becalmed in Hell” (Known Space)
   “Wait It Out” (Known Space)
   “A Relic of the Empire” (Known Space)
   “Lucifer’s Hammer” excerpt by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
   “The Soft Weapon” (Known Space)
   “The Borderland of Sol” (Known Space)
   “The Ringworld Engineers” excerpt (Ringworld)
   “What Good Is a Glass Dagger?” (Magic Goes Away)
   “The Magic Goes Away” excerpt (Magic Goes Away)
   “The Defenseless Dead” (Gil Hamilton)
   “The Patchwork Girl” excerpt
   “Leviathan!” (Svetz)
   “Oath of Fealty” excerpt by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
   “Unfinished Story” (Magic Goes Away)
   “Cautionary Tales”
   “The Dreadful White Page”
   “Retrospective” by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
   “The Green Marauder” (Draco Tavern)
   “Assimilating Our Culture, That’s What They’re Doing!” (Draco Tavern)
   “War Movie” (Draco Tavern)
   “Limits” (Draco Tavern)
   “The Lost Ideas”
   “Bigger Than Worlds”
   “Ghetto? But I Thought…”
   “Adrienne and Irish Coffee”
   “One Night at the Draco Tavern” (Draco Tavern)
   “TrantorCon Report”
   “Why Men Fight Wars, and What You Can Do About It!”
   “Comics”
   “The Green Lantern Bible”
   “Criticism”
   “The Legacy of Heorot” (Heorot) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
   “Portrait of Daryanree the King”
   “The Wishing Game”
   “The Lion in His Attic” (Magic Goes Away)
   “Footfall” excerpt by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
   “The Moat Around Murcheson’s Eye” excerpt
   “Fallen Angels” excerpt
   “Wanted Fan”
   “The California Voodoo Game”
   “Letter to Ralph Vicinanza Ltd.”

Limits by Larry Niven

Title: Limits
Series: Berserker, Draco Tavern, Magic Goes Away
Number in Series: n/a, n/a, n/a
Author(s): Steven Barnes, Dian Girard, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Cover Artist: Ron Walotsky
Language: English
Original Publisher: Del Rey
Originally Published: February 1985
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: February 1985
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 1818 (SFBC)
Notes: All by Larry Niven unless otherwise noted below.
Contents:
   “Introduction”
   “The Lion in His Attic” (Magic Goes Away)
   “Spirals” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
   “A Teardrop Falls” (Berserker)
   “Talisman” (Magic Goes Away) by Larry Niven and Dian Girard
   “Flare Time”
   “The Locusts” by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
   “Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard”
   “Folk Tale” (Draco Tavern)
   “The Green Marauder” (Draco Tavern)
   “War Movie” (Draco Tavern)
   “The Real Thing” (Draco Tavern)
   “Limits” (Draco Tavern)

Berserker by Fred Saberhagen

Title: Berserker
Series: Berserker
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Fred Saberhagen
Cover Artist: Boris
Language: English
Original Publisher: Ballantine Books
Originally Published: January 1967
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: November 1982
ISBN-10: 0441054633
ISBN-13: 9780441054633
Contents:
   “Introduction”
   “Without a Thought”
   “Goodlife”
   “Patron of the Arts”
   “The Peacemaker”
   “Stone Place”
   “What T and I Did”
   “Mr. Jester”
   “Masque of the Red Shift”
   “Sign of the Wolf”
   “In the Temple of Mars”
   “The Face of the Deep”