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A Hole in Space
First edition
AuthorLarry Niven
Cover artistDean Ellis
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages196 pp
ISBN0-345-24011-1
OCLC874123
Dewey Decimal
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.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"
  1. ^ "William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4. Scene III". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron: Canto the Sixth". The Literature Network. Retrieved May 19, 2015.


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