Playgrounds of the Mind
Playgrounds of the Mind is a collection of short stories by American writer Larry Niven, published in 1991. It is the sequel to N-Space.
Many of the stories are set in Niven's Known Space universe. There are also excerpts from his The Magic Goes Away novel series, as well as several stories from his The Draco Tavern setting and other sources.Contents
- "Thraxisp: A Memoir"
- "A Teardrop Falls"
- From Inferno
- From A World Out of Time
- "Rammer"
- From "The Ethics of Madness"
- "Becalmed in Hell"
- "Wait It Out"
- "A Relic of the Empire"
- From Lucifer's Hammer
- "The Soft Weapon"
- "The Borderland of Sol"
- From The Ringworld Engineers
- "What Good Is a Glass Dagger?"
- From The Magic Goes Away
- "The Defenseless Dead"
- From The Patchwork Girl
- "Leviathan!"
- From Oath of Fealty
- Unfinished Story
- "Cautionary Tales"
- "The Dreadful White Page"
- From Dream Park
- "Retrospective"
- "The Green Marauder"
- "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!"
- "War Movie"
- "Limits"
- "The Lost Ideas"
- "Bigger Than Worlds"
- "Ghetto? But I Thought..."
- "Adrienne and Irish Coffee"
- "One Night at the Draco Tavern"
- "TrantorCon Report"
- "Why Men Fight Wars, and What You Can Do About It!"
- Comics
- From Green Lantern Bible
- Criticism
- From The Legacy of Heorot
- "The Portrait of Daryanree the King"
- "The Wishing Game"
- "The Lion In His Attic"
- From Footfall
- Works in Progress
- From The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye
- From Fallen Angels
- "Wanted Fan"
- The California Voodoo Game
- "Letter"