Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories by American writer Larry Niven....

This is a list of fictional characters featured in the Known Space novels by Larry Niven. Sigmund Ausfaller, a native of Earth, is a member of the Amalgamated...

Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven is a science fiction collection by American writer Larry Niven, collecting thirteen short stories published...

misnomer for Known Space, a fictional setting created by Larry Niven This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Known Universe. If an...

collection) The Shape of Space (1969 collection) Protector (1973)—Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1974 Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven...

to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding...

an astrophysicist who was employed as a data scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at the time, said in an April 2013 TED talk that he had used...

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and...

the entire n-dimensional Euclidean space (where n is 2, 3, or any other positive integer). Most well-known space-filling curves are constructed iteratively...

upon sites' URI space. The list below describes known standards for .well-known services that a web server can implement. "Well-Known URIs". IANA. Retrieved...

fiction novels written by American author Larry Niven. It is part of his Known Space series of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600...

Space travel,: 69 : 209–210 : 511–512  or space flight: 200–201  (less often, starfaring or star voyaging: 217, 220 ) is a science fiction theme that...

A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation...

(also known as astronaut selfies), machines (also known as space robot selfies and rover selfies) and by indirect methods. The first known space selfie...

Unthought known is a phrase coined by Christopher Bollas in the 1980s to represent those experiences in some way known to the individual, but about which...

Pierson's Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from American author Larry Niven's Known Space books. The race first appeared...

vulnerable to ciphertext-only attacks. For example, Akelarre. A cipher whose key space is too small is subject to brute force attack with access to nothing but...

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld...

The known-plaintext attack (KPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has access to both the plaintext (called a crib) and its encrypted...

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite...

(1952-1964) by H. Beam Piper Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein Known Space (1964-present) by Larry Niven Dune (1965-present) by Frank Herbert The...

mechanics include space exploration, space trade and space combat. Some games in the genre aim to recreate a realistic portrayal of space flight, involving...

Many of Niven's stories—sometimes called the Tales of Known Space—take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable...

Space travel under constant acceleration is a hypothetical method of space travel that involves the use of a propulsion system that generates a constant...

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies. It contains ultra-low levels of particle...

Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics...

and the three spatial dimensions of space into a single four-dimensional continuum now known as Minkowski space. This interpretation proved vital to...

In mathematics and physics, a vector space (also called a linear space) is a set whose elements, often called vectors, can be added together and multiplied...

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Space Marines, also known as the Adeptus Astartes, are superhuman warriors who fight for the Imperium...

white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. For example, a space character (U+0020   SPACE, ASCII 32) represents blank space such as...