Larry Niven Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Larry Niven? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Larry Niven from Writers Literature Modern and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (5w6)
Larry Niven personality type is INTJ, and that's not hard to see. His first novel, The Mote in God's Eye, was a very clearly-written and plotted (and almost obsessively detailed) science fiction story. It was a fantastic first novel, and if Niven had the kind of career he's had since then, it would still be good. But it's not. It's pretty bad. It's also an early example of a lot of things that you'll see again and again.
His second novel, A Gift From Earth, is a much better book than his first, and it's better for the same reason – Niven's life has changed and he's gotten better. You can see that change in the writing – it's tighter, and it's more mature. And you can see the changes in the plot – it's flatter and more straightforward, and it has a lot more room for growth.
In A Gift From Earth, Niven introduces a character named Alvin. Alvin is an artificial intelligence who exists as a sort of mental projection of the author.
Laurence van Cott Niven (/ˈnɪvən/; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977).
