Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mercurio D. Rivera joins us to discuss the first nine stories in the short story collection The Best of Larry Niven, edited by Jonathan Strahan.

00:00 - Intro
5:10 - Becalmed in Hell
17:54 - Bordered in Black
26:35 - Neutron Star
38:16 - The Soft Weapon
56:27 - The Jigsaw Man
1:02:55 - The Deadlier Weapon
1:08:16 - All the Myriad Ways
1:19:48 - Not Long Before the End
1:28:01 - Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
1:37:01 - Wrapup