I have lifted this idea wholesale from Kim Stanley Robinson's 1985 novel Icehenge . Icehenge is a circle of columns of ice, each ...

Known Space has hobbits. Doctor Shin Wei Chung was possibly a visionary (or possibly a lunatic), and during the late 21 st century when g...

In Known Space a certain amount of genetic tinkering is regarded as perfectly acceptable and normal, but there are still people out there ...

Finn MacCool, or Fionn mac Cumhail, was a really big, really tough Irish hero who did too many marvellous things to recount here, in Known...

Back in the early 22 nd century warp drive vessels became cheap enough for all kinds of small companies and political fringe groups to go...

There are stars of all sizes and colours, white, yellow, orange, red and brown. There are quite a lot of brown dwarfs dotted around, diml...

Most people in Known Space don't like cybernetics and regard those sporting them as freaks and wierdos or worse. The interfaces availa...