Laurence van Cott Niven (d. 30 Nisan 1938), Los Angeles doğumlu bilimkurgu yazarı. Matematik mezunudur. 1960'larda bilimkurgu hikâyeleri yazmaya başlamıştır. En ünlü eserlerinden biri 1970'lerin başında yazdığı Halka Dünya Hugo , Nebula ve Locus ödülleri almıştır. Halihazırda bilimkurgu dünyasının sayılı yazarları arasında yer edinmiştir.
En İyi Roman Nebula Ödülü
1966–1980 1981–2000
Timescape by Gregory Benford (1981)The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1982)No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (1983)Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)Neuromancer William Gibson (1985)Ender's Game Orson Scott Card (1986)Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1987)The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (1988)Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1990)Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1991)Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick (1992)Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993)Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)Moving Mars by Greg Bear (1995)The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer (1996)Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1997)The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre (1998)Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1999)Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (2000) 2001–2020
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (2001)The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro (2002)American Gods Neil Gaiman (2003)Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (2004)Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2005)Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2006)Seeker by Jack McDevitt (2007)The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (2009)The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2010)Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (2011)Among Others 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (2013)Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2014)Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (2015)Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2016)All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (2017)The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (2019)A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker (2020) 2021–günümüz
Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021)A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (2022)Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (2023)
Retro 1953-1975 1976-2000 2001-günümüz
