These images have been gathered from a variety of sources, and are in (mostly) chronological order, with the newest pictures are posted at the top.  For most of them, you can click on the "thumbnail" to download a larger version.

Picture submissions:  If you have a good snapshot of Larry which you have taken, possibly at a convention, then we would love to hear from you, email the webmasters to get your picture added to the gallery.

2001 Pictures
PA170083.jpg Larry Niven on the high overlook on the way up to Pueblo Alto. PA170033.jpg Jerry Pournelle with the Pueblo Bonito behind me. bclphilcon copy.jpg This picture of our own Carol Phillips, Larry and Brenda Cooper (on the right) taken at PhilCon 2/9/01, philcon-stevenstation5.jpg Larry participating in a panel at PhilCon on the 2/9/01
PA160028.jpg Larry Niven hard at work in his motel room in Cuba, New Mexico during the Burning Tower research trip with Jerry Pournelle.  Photo taken on 16th October 2001.  Interesting to note that Larry prefers the humpbacked Microsoft keyboards!  philcon-stevenstation2.jpg Larry autographing a paperback edition of Neutron Star for Steven R. Station on 1/9/01 at PhilCon.   Larry obviously get's his pens from Dune's (Frank Herbert Novel) Fremen.  It looks like a Sandworm's tooth! 
philcon-stevenstation4.jpg Closeup of Larry joining or leaving the panel at PhilCon on 2/9/01 philcon-stevenstation1.jpg This picture of Larry, from in the Autograph line at PhilCon on 1/9/01 This picture of Larry, Greg Bear and Jerry Pournelle was taken on 5/8/01 at Poul Anderson's Funeral.  Greg Bear in the middle of the picture is Poul's son in Law, the picture was taken in Poul's office. 
p5250126.jpg This picture of Larry was taken on 25/5/01 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Larry, and Jerry Pournelle were visiting the museum to do some research for the forthcoming BURNING TOWER novel.  Larry is pictured next to the Statue of Heracles. p4270017.jpg This picture was taken on 1/5/01 in Larry's Kitchen at his home. As you can see, this is just after Larry's accident so he is struggling to work on his laptop balanced on his bad leg.  Jerry took pity on Larry and sorted him out a proper connection for his laptop in the downstairs library, below.
p4300007.jpg Taken on 1/5/01, Jerry Pournelle and his friend Eric have set up Larry's Laptop using a wireless network connection so that it is more comfortable for him to work . What we want to know is - just what is the significance of the plastic pink flamingo in the corner answers on a postcard to webmasters@larryniven.org.


1999 Pictures
larryslibrary.jpg Another shot of Larry's Library, this time with his agent, Eleanor Wood in the foreground. Collab2adjsm.jpg Picture taken at NorWesCon (April 2001), just before Larry's accident, Left to Right, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper and Larry.  l26p059t.jpg Larry and his wife Marilyn (or "Fuzzy"). super12.jpg "Superman and Lois Lane" at Motor City Comic Con, Novi, Mi, May 2000. Costume design by Carol Phillips.  For a series of shots of Clark Kent's transformation larry_niven_sm.jpg By a fan.   © Timothy Jones

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Photo by Charles N Brown taken from the Locus Magazine Website

CON-fpn.jpg Taken at Los Con 1999: Larry Niven, Mary Creasy, Frank Gasperik, and Leslie Fish, make up The Filk Panel Fithp01.jpg "The Fithp are Invading": Larry Niven and Carol Phillips at ConText, October 1999.  Costume design by Carol Phillips. Niven-Pournelle2.jpg Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle holding up the dust cover for the Burning City during a promotional tour
p5260013.jpg Tor SF Editor Bob Gleason, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at the top of Jerry's Hill taken in August 1999. pc310010.jpg Picture of Larry standing next to his Koi Pond taken during his New Years Party 31/12/98. p1010013.jpg p1010015.jpg
Larry's Office where he does most of his writing taken 31/12/98 by Jerry Pournelle.  To the right is a view of the Office from another angle.
StevenBarnes.jpg Larry's other writing partner, Steven Barnes with his wife p1010029.jpg Jerry Pournelle pictured next to Larry's robot doorman "Stanley",  taken 31/12/98 I&O@C28i.jpg (38936 bytes) Carol Phillips and Larry Niven as Isis and Osiris from Egyptian Mythology, an homage to Roger Zelazy and _Creatures of Light and Darkness_. This picture taken at ConQuesT28, Kansas City, 1997, where they won the costume contest. Costume design and execution by Carol Phillips.
41NivenSigning.jpg Larry and a fan.  Taken at the 55th World Science Fiction Convention in Texas'97. # 24Panel.jpg Long Range Planning for Development of Mars and the Moon Panel members from the 55th World Science Fiction Convention Lonestar Con2 in Texas '97.  To Larry's left is Dr. Robert  Zubrin.  dscn1424.jpg Larry and Jerry peeping out from behind a huge Mote in God's Eye cutout during a promotional tour for the novel. niven316_2t.gif Photo of Larry taken from the back of one of his novels.
1998 Pictures

Okon 11, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1988
Larry Niven and Carol Phillips


Undated Pictures
portrait1_75.gif (36451 bytes) The oldest picture which we have of Larry dating back into the 70s.

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