A Hole in Space

{{Short description|1974 short story/essay collection by Larry Niven}}

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| author = Larry Niven

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| cover_artist = Dean Ellis

| country = United States

| language = English

| publisher = Ballantine Books

| pub_date = 1974

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| media_type = Print (Hardcover)

| pages = 196 pp

| isbn = 0-345-24011-1

| dewey = 813/.5/4

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A Hole in Space (U.K. edition {{ISBN|0-86007-853-1}}) is a collection of nine science fiction short stories and one essay, all by Larry Niven, published in 1974. This 1975 winner of the Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (place: second) includes:

• "Rammer" (this story had later become part of the novel A World Out of Time)
• "The Alibi Machine"
• "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club"
• "A Kind of Murder"
• "All the Bridges Rusting"
• "There Is a Tide" {{Refn|group=Note|The title is a double quotation. (1) Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV Scene iii: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."{{Cite web |title=William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4. Scene III |url=http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/julius_caesar/14/ |publisher=The Literature Network |access-date=May 19, 2015 }} (2) Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixth: "There is a tide in the affairs of women,/Which, taken at the flood, leads{{snd}}God knows where."{{Cite web |title=Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron: Canto the Sixth |url=http://www.online-literature.com/byron/don-juan/7/ |publisher=The Literature Network |access-date=May 19, 2015 }} }}
• "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
• "$16,940.00"
• "The Hole Man"
• "The Fourth Profession"