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- Herausgeber: Wildside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
This classic 1984 interview with Larry Niven, author of such classics as Ringworld and and co-author of The Mote in God's Eye, plus many others, was conducted by Darrell Schweitzer. It originally appeared in Thrust #21, Fall 85/Winter 85 issue.
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
SPEAKING WITH LARRY NIVEN
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 1984 by Darrell Schweitzer.
Originally published in Thrust 21, Fall 85/Winter 85.
Published by Wildside Press, LLC.
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SPEAKING WITH LARRY NIVEN
A Classic Interview with Darrell Schweitzer
Interviews with science fiction authors are often dated by the time they are published and read. I have never felt that this situation should be detrimental to the value of the interview, if the interviewer has done his job. A good interview with an sf author is more historic preservation than news.
It must be admitted, however, that this interview with Larry Niven has been delayed in publication somewhat longer than usual. It was conducted at The World Fantasy Convention in Providence in 1979, and sold to Eternity Science Fiction shortly thereafter. But that magazine then died a lingering death, taking years to relinquish its backlog. It was done while Inferno was a recent memory and Dream Park was a work in progress. The interview has since been expanded slightly to bring it more up to date.
As for Larry Niven, he is an sf author who, I'm confident, needs no introduction to the readers of Thrust.
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Q: You mentioned in another interview, or perhaps it was Jerry Pournelle, that for years you had wanted to write a science fiction version of Dante. Why?
Niven: It's a neat fantasy. I was handed Inferno as part of a course in world literature at college, and I raced through it in a day and two nights. It reads great. I had the Ciardi version, by the way. I'm told that other translations of Dante are duller. The Ciardi has all the footnotes you could ever want. I read Inferno, started over, read it again, and as usual I started daydreaming in class. Daydreaming in class is why I never got further than a Bachelor's in mathematics. It's a lot of the reason I got thrown out of Cal. Tech., I suppose. I daydreamed about what 1 would do in the Inferno if I couldn't call on angels. There was nothing but deus-ex-machina every step of the way in Inferno.
Suppose I didn't have a guide at all? How would I get out? That was exciting daydreaming. I later read the Ciardi Purgatorio and Paradiso, but that came out some time after I'd read Inferno
