Madness from the Inconstant Moon, Larry Niven
Madness from the Inconstant Moon, Larry Niven
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Madness from the Inconstant Moon
A Collection of Short Works from Larry Niven

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2017

Synopsis

Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)“Passerby” (1969)“For a Foggy Night” (1968)“Wait It Out” (1968)“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)“Not Long before the End” (1969)“Unfinished Story No. 1” (1970)“Unfinished Story No. 2” (1971)“Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” (essay, 1969)“Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation” (essay, 1969)“The Theory and Practice of Time Travel” (essay, 1971)“Inconstant Moon” (1971)“What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?” (1971)“Becalmed in Hell” (1965)

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling and multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series and The Burning City, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. 

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on August 10, 2022

This collection of eleven short stories and three essays written between 1965 and 1971 was all over the place. I really only enjoyed two of the stories: "Inconstant Moon" about the mysterious brightening of the moon one evening, and "Becalmed in Hell" about a human mission to Venus. Most of the othe......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 08, 2021

A collection of Niven's best-known short works. My favorite was the one about the Warlock and the Barbarian, but it illustrates what frustrates me about Niven. He hasn't come to terms with death. In "Madness from the Inconstant Moon," for example, the set-up is excellent, but then what? I wish the c......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert on October 01, 2021

This is a collection of short stories and essays by Larry Niven. The stories are all enjoyable and a couple will really make you think. The title story, Inconstant Moon, is particularly touching. It is the essays, however, that really make the collection stand out. Keep in mind that Larry Niven has......more

Goodreads review by Harding on January 14, 2020

This is an incredibly solid collection of Mr. Niven's short fiction and articles, highlighted by Inconstant Moon (a favorite of mine), but by no means limited to it. Case in point: "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers," a great little yarn with far-reaching implications told in s......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 23, 2020

This is a collection of short stories and scientific speculation on such things as tele-transportation and time travel. Several of the short stories were also published individually. While I didn't like every last story, overall I really liked this collection. Any modesty issues? Yes. One of the stor......more

Quotes

“Urbane, assured, and at ease, narrator Bronson Pinchot sounds like he’s sitting on a white leather couch reading this collection of smart short stories and essays in a postmodern penthouse overlooking—well, the universe. With its finely honed eye and ear for scientific realism and thoughtful detail, this collection of ahead-of-their-time gems covers some of Larry Niven’s favorite topics…At eighty years old, Niven remains one of the true grand masters of science fiction, and with Pinchot’s nuanced reading we also find that there’s a very human side to all that hard science, as well. A fine and fun listening experience. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile

“Niven…lifts readers far from the conventional world—and does it with dash.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author

“Niven is a galaxy-class storyteller.” Time, praise for the author

Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award
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