Inconstant Moon

Name: Inconstant Moon
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781538453490

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/19/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova, and they only have a few hours until the earth rotates into the deadly sunshine.This story won a Hugo Award and was made into an episode of The Outer Limits.

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces and fantasy, including the Magic Goes Away series. His Beowulf's Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award–winning narrator and Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on August 10, 2022

This collection of eleven short stories and three essays written between 1965 and 1971 was all over the place. I really only enjoyed two of the stories: "Inconstant Moon" about the mysterious brightening of the moon one evening, and "Becalmed in Hell" about a human mission to Venus. Most of the othe......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on November 08, 2021

A collection of Niven's best-known short works. My favorite was the one about the Warlock and the Barbarian, but it illustrates what frustrates me about Niven. He hasn't come to terms with death. In "Madness from the Inconstant Moon," for example, the set-up is excellent, but then what? I wish the c......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert on October 01, 2021

This is a collection of short stories and essays by Larry Niven. The stories are all enjoyable and a couple will really make you think. The title story, Inconstant Moon, is particularly touching. It is the essays, however, that really make the collection stand out. Keep in mind that Larry Niven has......more

Goodreads review by Harding on January 14, 2020

This is an incredibly solid collection of Mr. Niven's short fiction and articles, highlighted by Inconstant Moon (a favorite of mine), but by no means limited to it. Case in point: "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers," a great little yarn with far-reaching implications told in s......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 23, 2020

This is a collection of short stories and scientific speculation on such things as tele-transportation and time travel. Several of the short stories were also published individually. While I didn't like every last story, overall I really liked this collection. Any modesty issues? Yes. One of the stor......more

Quotes

“Niven is a galaxy-class storyteller.” Time, praise for the author