All the Myriad Ways

Name: All the Myriad Ways
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781538452943

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/19/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble faces an increasing number of bizarre suicides in a world struggling to come to terms with its place in a multiverse of different timelines, where every decision ever made by anyone becomes an alternate universe.

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces and fantasy, including the Magic Goes Away series. His Beowulf's Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award–winning narrator and Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patricia on August 01, 2007

"All the Myriad Ways" is pretty ancient, by modern science fiction standards, but it's also more than that. It's one of Niven's collections of mixed fiction and commentary, science explanation, and basically "wild ideas" that he has either come up with or is happy to pass along to others. (Had strin......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 29, 2019

The title story is amazing. Instantly rises to my top 5 fave short stories of all time, right alongside The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. A quick, easy read that provokes challenging philosophical ideas. The easy writing style and enthralling, dreamlike sci-fi setting is enough to prompt me to read Niven’s......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 08, 2009

The title story is nice, and Inconstant Moon is always a joy. There's a segment of nonfiction in the middle that drags horribly -- Niven has poor command of density for nonfic.......more

Goodreads review by John on August 22, 2020

This unusual collection combines 14 short fiction and non-fiction pieces into a mostly satisfying grab-bag. The highlights include "Passerby," a clever take on deus ex machina; "The Jigsaw Man," which speculates about a world in which organ replacement has become commonplace, and the implications wh......more

Goodreads review by Conor on January 12, 2020

This is pretty good. Just some short stories and two essays. I'd read more Niven based on this.......more