Red Tide

Loosely based on Larry Niven's 1973 novella "Flash Crowd," Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences of the impact of having instantaneous teleportation, where humans can instantly travel long distances in milliseconds.   

This is a theme that has fascinated the author throughout his career and even appears in his seminal work Ringworld, where the central character celebrates his birthday by instantly teleporting himself to different time zones, extending his "birthday."   

The author also discusses the impact of such instantaneous transportation in his essay, "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation."   

 Larry Niven is joined by two younger writers, Brad R. Torgersen and Matthew J. Harrington, as they take on this challenging idea and further develop the theories and concepts that Niven originally presented in "Flash Crowd." 

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. He lives in Chatsworth, California. He and Jerry Pournelle wrote a number of New York Times bestsellers including Inferno, The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and Lucifer's Hammer. Many of Niven's stories—sometimes called “The Tales of Known Space”—take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable star systems nearest to the sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters. The Ringworld series is part of the Tales of Known Space, and Niven has shared the setting with other writers since a 1988 anthology, The Man-Kzin Wars (Baen Books, jointly edited with Jerry Pournelle and Dean Ing). There have been several volumes of short stories and novellas.  Larry Niven is also known in science fiction fandom for "Niven's Law": There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.Brad R. Torgersen is an American science fiction authorwhose short stories regularly appear in various anthologies and magazines,including Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Orson Scott Card's IntergalacticMedicine Show.Torgersen's stories have won the Analog AnLab readers'choice award three different times, and he was a triple finalist in 2012 forthe John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for bestnovelette, and the Nebula Award for best novelette. In addition to shortfiction, Torgersen has two published novels, including the 2019 Dragon Awardwinner, A Star-Wheeled Sky. The Who's Who page for Analog magazine lists him asone of the "leading writers in the genre".Matthew Joseph Harrington, son of historian Joseph DanielHarrington, was born in 1960 at the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. Hetaught himself to read at the age of two. He was enrolled in public schools inBowie, Maryland, and received an education by skipping class to hang out in thepublic library. At 10 he pushed a two-ton truck uphill unassisted.First story ever sold was to Larry Niven for Man-Kzin Warsseries— which, given that the authors up to then were such lights as PoulAnderson, Hal Colebatch, Dean Ing, Donald Kingsbury, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle,was an experience not unlike showing up for a draft physical and being inductedinto the Justice League. His third published story, Soul Survivor, in Baen'sUniverse, has been recommended for the Nebula. He is coauthor, with Larry Niven,of The Goliath Stone.

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