A Hole in Space

A Hole in Space (U.K. edition ISBN 0-86007-853-1) is a collection of nine science fiction short stories and one essay, all by Larry Niven, published in 1974. This 1975 winner of the Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (place: second) includes:

• "Rammer" (this story had later become part of the novel A World Out of Time)
• "The Alibi Machine"
• "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club"
• "A Kind of Murder"
• "All the Bridges Rusting"
• "There Is a Tide" ^{[Note 1]}
• "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
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• "The Hole Man"
• "The Fourth Profession"

A Hole in Space

First edition
Author	Larry Niven
Cover artist	Dean Ellis
Language	English
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1974
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	196 pp
ISBN	0-345-24011-1
OCLC	874123
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.N734 Ho PS3564.I9

Explanatory footnotes

1. The title is a double quotation. (1) Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV Scene iii: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."^[1] (2) Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixth: "There is a tide in the affairs of women,/Which, taken at the flood, leads – God knows where."^[2]