A Hole in Space
 First edition | |
| Author | Larry Niven |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Dean Ellis |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1974 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 196 pp |
| ISBN | 0-345-24011-1 |
| OCLC | 874123 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.N734 Ho PS3564.I9 |
A Hole in Space (U.K. edition ISBN 0-86007-853-1) is a collection of nine science fiction short stories and one essay, all by Larry Niven, published in 1974. This 1975 winner of the Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (place: second) includes:
- "Rammer" (this story had later become part of the novel A World Out of Time)
- "The Alibi Machine"
- "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club"
- "A Kind of Murder"
- "All the Bridges Rusting"
- "There Is a Tide" [Note 1]
- "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
- "$16,940.00"
- "The Hole Man"
- "The Fourth Profession"
Explanatory footnotes
[edit]- ^ The title is a double quotation. (1) Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV Scene iii: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."[1] (2) Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixth: "There is a tide in the affairs of women,/Which, taken at the flood, leads – God knows where."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4. Scene III". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- ^ "Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron: Canto the Sixth". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
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