Inconstant Moon

All the Myriad Ways is a collection of short stories and essays by science fiction author Larry Niven, originally published in 1971. It contains: "All the Myriad Ways" "Passerby" "For a Foggy Night" "Wait it Out" "The Jigsaw Man" "Not Long Before the End" "Unfinished Story #1" "Unfinished Story #2" "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" "The Theory and Practi ...

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Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place" (which in the story was said to be the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun but which was found to rotate in a 2:3 resonance just months before the story was published). He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1967 for Neutron Star, in 1972 for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. He won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in ...

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After the dispersion of the Jews it becomes increasingly difficult to speak of specifically Jewish mythology. Spread among all the peoples of the earth, the Jews appear to have borrowed customs from each of them, and when found among them today it is most difficult to determine: first, whether the custom is at all Jewish; and, secondly, if non-Jewish, whether it belongs to the country where the particular mythological item is ...

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A thinly disguised Niven appears as the character "Lawrence Van Cott" in the Greg Bear novel The Forge of God. A part of the computer game Wing Commander II takes place in the "Niven Sector" (it is believed that the Kilrathi, the feline alien enemy in the Wing Commander series, were based on Niven's Kzinti). There are those who think that Niven numbers may have been named in his honor, but despite his popularity and mathematical background, they are actually named for Ivan M. Niven. Niven's idea of a beanstalk sucking dr ...

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There are a few definitely Jewish legends of the Middle Ages which partake of the character of folktales, such as those of the Jewish pope (see Andreas) and of the golem, or that relating to the wall of the Rashi chapel, which moved backward in order to save the life of a poor woman who was in danger of being crushed by a passing car in the narrow way. Several of these legends were collected by Tendlau (" ...

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The natural tendency to create myths, expelled as it had been by the Prophets, returned with force during the Talmudic period, probably under the influence of Babylonian and Persian environment. The "Shedim" or demons became as ubiquitous to the populace of the ordinary Jews in Talmudic times as microbes are thought of today, to which they present remarkable analogies. The classical rabbis themselves were at times not free from sharing in the popular beliefs. Yet there are found instances of exceptional freedom from mythological influ ...

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Scholars of religion hold that people in the time of the Hebrew Bible had beliefs and superstitions analogous to those found among their contemporaries, and even among modern uncivilized peoples. This view is echoed among some of the medieval religious rationalists such as Maimonides. Many scholars of religion hold that some of the early Israelite views about the creation of the world and of humanity are derived from the mythology and folklore of the surrounding ancient near-eastern nations, such as Babylon, Sumerian and Akkadia. T ...

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In the past century (and further, but especially in the last), there have been many retellings of Jewish myths (mostly from the Torah). They have mostly been in the regions of science-fiction; as Isaac Asimov noted in his introduction to More Wandering Stars: "...Can science fiction be part of Jewish culture? From fantasy stories we know?/ And as I think of it, it begins to seem to me that it is and we do know. And the source? From where else? From the Hebrew source for everything-- From the Bible. We have ...

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