Flatlander

Flatlander is a term used in Larry Niven's Known Space series, initially to describe one who has never left Earth. In later stories, it is apparently expanded to refer to anyone who has never traveled off their native world (but not for one who was born in a colony or space station, and never left it). The term comes from the fact that, from the surface, a planet seems flat. Other sci-fi writers have subsequently adapted the term for their own use.

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Larry Niven - Known Space - Planet seems flat

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Flatlander (ISBN 0345394801) is also a 1995 collection of stories by Niven, all set in Known Space. It is the definitive collection of all stories by Niven about ARM agent Gil Hamilton.

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1995 - ARM - Gil Hamilton

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The book includes the stories "Death by Ecstasy" (formerly "The Organleggers"), "The Defenseless Dead", "ARM", The Patchwork Girl, and "The Woman in Del Rey Crater"—the only previously unpublished story in the collection.

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The collection is essentially a replacement for a 1976 collection called The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (ISBN 0345300505) which contained only the first three stories. The Patchwork Girl was also published alone as a novel in 1986 (ISBN 0441653154).

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1976 - 1986

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"Flatlander" is also the title of a 1967 novelette by Niven, which was nominated for a Nebula Award

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1967 - Nebula Award

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See also: Books with similar titles: Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott, and Flatterland, a sequel by Ian Stewart.

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Flatland - Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatterland - Ian Stewart

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