![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also completed a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Niven briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas in 1962. Doheny, an oil tycoon who drilled the first successful well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1892, and also was subsequently implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, works of rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. Laurence van Cott Niven ( / ˈ n ɪ v ən/ born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. Niven at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, 2007 ![]()
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