![]() ![]() The stories span approximately one thousand years of future history, from the first human explorations and colonizations of the Solar System ( in the 1970s and 1980s) to the year 3122 (the year the chronologically last Known Space story, "Safe At Any Speed", takes place). ![]() The fictional universe also includes things that are found outside of "Known Space" proper (that is, the space that is regularly travelled by humans and the aliens around them), such as the Ringworld, the Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds (by way of which the Pierson's Puppeteers are fleeing the Milky Way), and the homeworld of the Pak, found somewhere close to the galactic core. Within the setting itself, "Known Space" refers to a relatively small portion of the Milky Way, centered around Earth and its colonies, and including eight other starfaring alien species and their colony worlds (there is no current all-encompassing political body in Known Space, and each species governs its own planets). It is generally considered by scholars of science fiction to be one of the most internally consistent, if not always the most scientifically plausible, SF settings in the history of the genre. Known Space is a future history setting used by author Larry Niven as a base for thirty-five of his short stories and nine novels. ![]()
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