Proper noun
Niven (plural Nivens)
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. Larry Niven
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond. Val Guest
Niven made a name for himself as a hard SF author, which is to say, someone whose SF provides enough technical detail that the reader can be certain that various mechanisms and events couldn't work the way the author has them working. James Nicoll
About Harlan Ellison's world Medea, jointly written with Poul Anderson, Thomas M. Disch, Larry Niven & Frederik Pohl. Source: Internet
After being placed under close-arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him: Rhoddy Rose (later Colonel R.L.C. Rose, DSO, MC). Source: Internet
After writing Good Omens, Pratchett began to work with Larry Niven on a book that would become Rainbow Mars ; Niven eventually completed the book on his own, but states in the afterword that a number of Pratchett's ideas remained in the finished version. Source: Internet