Series
Gil Hamilton
Larry Niven & Steven Barnes · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 2 collections · 1969–2022
Larry Niven's Gil Hamilton stories are near-future police procedurals set in his Known Space history, following a UN police detective investigating organlegging - the black-market harvesting of organs for transplant - in an overcrowded world where organ banks make body parts a form of currency. Hamilton's own case is complicated by a phantom limb: a psychic "third arm" that gives the series its name (the ARM stories, later collected as The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton). Niven revisited the character decades later with Steven Barnes for further Known Space material.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Gil Hamilton at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s3
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 2 collections
2 authors
reads like:science fictionmurder investigationthe moonnear futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Death by Ecstasydarkest
- Flatlanderbrightest · most intense
- Sacred Cowcalmest