Phase I: Background for Ringworld
(Neutron Star collection plus
"There Is a Tide" and "The Warriors")
Started: May 8, 2007 Completed: Sep 1, 2007
Phase II:Ringworld
Started: Feb 27, 2010
August 1, 2010: Added a Webs.com website analytic script to a few pages. I'm curious to see how much traffic I'm getting. I also applied for the Amazon.com Associates program, so if there are enough visitors to this website who click on Amazon.com links and buy a book, this will give me a tiny "kickback" in the way of an occasional Amazon.com gift certificate.
July 31, 2010: Added links to the Ringworld story summary. This completes the primary work on Phase II of the Concordance project, altho there is still some clean-up work to be done such as adding cross-references. Converted most graphic links on pages starting with S - X to PhotoBucket links. This completes the movement of most graphic links to the PhotoBucket account. Deleted now-unused graphic files from the primary (Webs.com) site.
July 29, 2010: Finished the second draft of the Ringworld story summary, and added it to Story Summary page #4. Added Ringworld to the list of indexed stories and the list of story summaries. Also added 8 new pictures to the Ringworld story summary, plus linked to 16 existing images, as well as several linked larger images. Converted most graphic links on pages starting with I - R to PhotoBucket links.
July 27, 2010: Finished the "Appendix: The Ringworld", at least for now. Converted most graphic links on pages starting with A - H to PhotoBucket links. Retained Freewebs links for buttons and spacers.
July 21, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "X - Y - Z" Concordance section. Also added one image. Noticed today that the website had exceeded its monthly bandwidth allotment. Created a PhotoBucket account and uploaded all but a few small graphics for this website to that site.
July 20, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "T", "U - V" and "W" Concordance sections. For the "T" section, added two images, and linked to an existing third image plus a linked larger image. Received permission from Larry Niven to use a scan of an illo from "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation", a stepping disc diagram, which was added to the "S" Concordance section.
July 18, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "S" Concordance section, plus two images. Also added an image to the "R" page, and replaced the Louis Wu image on the "W" page.
July 15, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "Q - R" Concordance section. Also added three images, and two linked larger images.
July 14, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "P" Concordance section. Also added two images, and moved another to this page.
July 7, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "N - O" Concordance section. Also added one image, plus a linked larger image.
July 5, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "M" Concordance section, and linked to an existing image.
July 3, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "L" Concordance section, plus two images.
July 2, 2010: Added one images to the "K" Concordance section, and linked to an existing second image.
July 1, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "K" Concordance section.
June 30, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "I - J" Concordance section.
June 27, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "H" Concordance section. Also added three images, plus a linked larger image.
June 25, 2010: Added two images to the "G" Concordance section, plus a linked larger image.
June 24, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "G" Concordance section.
June 22, 2010: Added two images to the "F" Concordance section. Found a better image for Teela Brown, and replaced the existing image.
June 21, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "F" Concordance section.
June 20, 2010: Edited John Hewitt's diagram of the City Builder ramship to remove incorrectly placed landing legs. Added six pictures to "C" Concordance section, including small and large versions of the edited City Builder ramship diagram. Also, added a fourth Gallery page for "Larry Niven's Freefall", including a new image sent from Aldo Spadoni. Finished replacing "Liar" pointer with glass "Home" button on all pages. Added Ringworld entries to the "D - E" Concordance section.
June 19, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "C" Concordance section.
June 18, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "B" Concordance section, and two pictures.
June 17, 2010: Added Ringworld entries to the "A" Concordance section, and two pictures.
March 1, 2010: R. Dennis Antinore suggested that we add a favicon to the site, and created a Lying Bastard favicon for us! Also, added several graphics to the Appendix: The Ringworld page. Started work on the Ringworld Parameters section of the Appendix.
February 28, 2010: Created glass buttons for "Home" and "Click to Enlarge". Installed "Enlarge" buttons on Gallery pages, installed "Home" buttons in header and footer. Rearranged some Home page elements, and added link to Appendix: The Ringworld. Scanned some images from the Ringworld Role-Playing Game, and cleaned them up.
February 27, 2010: Finally finished preliminary indexing of Ringworld. Hooray! Started work on Appendix: The Ringworld. Found a larger scan of the box cover for the Ringworld Role-Playing Game. Cropped Ralph McQuarrie's painting and cleaned it up.
February 3, 2010: Added entries for Destroyer of Worlds to Timeline and Tables of Contents.
January 31, 2010: Added Destroyer of Worldsto Bibliography and Reading Order sections. Revised concordance entries per dating info in Destroyer of Worlds.
September 25, 2008: Added Juggler of Worlds to Bibliography and Tables of Contents.
September 24, 2008: Updated Timeline and "What to Read First" section to include info from and about Juggler of Worlds.
August 7, 2008: Added "Timeline for the Ringworld" and "The Three Tales of Teela Brown" to the Articles section.
July 16, 2008: Test page for the expanded version of The Niven Project gallery approved by Aldo Spadoni. Test version now live version.
July 15, 2008: Added "Six Good Reasons Why the Pak Didn't Build the Ringworld" to the Articles section.
July 14, 2008: Put up test page for expanded version of The Niven Project gallery.
July 12, 2008: Received additions to The Niven Project gallery from Aldo Spadoni.
June 30, 2008: Added "The Tnuctipun Plot" to the Articles section.
June 6, 2008: New version of the Timeline posted.
April 3, 2008: Created new Articles sub-section "Alternate Theories of Known Space". Posted a new article solicited from Steve Davidson, "The Tnuctipun Aren't Done". Also posted a reprint of Jayson Vantuyl's "Outsider" article there.
March 29, 2008: Received permission from Jayson Vantuyl to post his article "An Outsider Motivation for Building the Ring".
February 28, 2008: Finalized gallery page for "The Niven Project". Received final approval from Aldo Spadoni, and permission from Larry Niven, to go public with the page. Added "Gallery" to front page's links menu. Added some of Spadoni's images to various Concordance and story summary pages.
February 18, 2008: Received some computer artwork from "The Niven Project" from Aldo Spadoni. Set up test page for "The Niven Project". Revised the front page's left column links menu, discarding graphic buttons. Format now matches front page Concordance pages links menu.
February 4, 2008: Received permission from Spike MacPhee and Jerry Boyajian to use the text from their "Timeline for Known Space", and to post copies of their original manuscript for the timeline.
February 2, 2008: Spike MacPhee sent me scans of original manuscript of his "Timeline for Known Space".
February 1, 2008: Received a "thank you" note from Spike R. MacPhee, one of the two fans who composed the "Timeline for Known Space" published in Tales of Known Space.
January 29, 2008: Formatted 16 "Tales of Known Space" icons from The Icon Factory to postage-stamp size, at 200%; added them to various concordance pages.
December 28, 2007: Revised format for left column on front page to reduce spacing between buttons. Standardized height of link buttons.
December 27, 2007: Changed links on front page to khaki. Revised front page link buttons to use khaki font color.
December 18, 2007: Added "Adaptations & Miscellany" sub-section to "Biography" section. Revised Story Summary pages to use gray picture borders, and to make picture placement work across more browser settings.
December 10, 2007: Finished table format revision of "Tables of Contents" page; added more cover pictures. Revised front page right-column links to use mouse-over effect.
December 9, 2007: Major improvement and cleanup of table format on "Tables of Contents" page, first column. Changed format to use uniform gray table borders, added cover pictures.
December 8, 2007: Revised Bibliography page to use uniform gray table borders.
December 7, 2007: Devised CSS code for 1 pixel wide, uniform gray borders for tables. Revised Timeline to use this.
December 1, 2007: Split off "Critique" and "Chronology" pages from "Articles" section. Added "Hyperdrive Theory & Practice" to Articles. Received permission from Adam Burch to use his "The Kzinti Lesson" illustration for "The Warriors".
November 29, 2007: Added Google site search to front page. Changed star tile background, for more muted stars.
November 29, 2007: Added tables of contents of the Man-Kzin War series to the Bibliography page. Discovered a good picture for an Outsider, added it to the "Outsiders" entry.
November 20, 2007: Decided gray borders for pictures look better than white borders; replaced all white borders with gray.
November 19, 2007: Received permission from R. Dennis Antinore to post a screenshot of his digital Ringworld painting. Added picture and started work on Ringworld entry.
November 18, 2007: Discovered website with wonderful animated digital painting of Ringworld online.
November 12, 2007: Finished installing forward/back buttons, on Concordance pages S - Z.
November 11, 2007: Installed forward/back buttons on Concordance pages D - R. Fleet of Worlds chat today; Niven said "The Color of Sunfire" was apparently no longer canonical.
November 10, 2007: Completed revising Concordance pages to include headers & footers, and shorten links; pages Q - Z. Made slightly smaller forward/back buttons. Began installing forward/back buttons on Concordance pages; A - C completed.
November 9, 2007: Revised Concordance pages K - P to include headers & footers, and shorten links. Added an illustration to "Using the Concordance" and Timeline pages.
November 8, 2007: Revised more pages to include headers & footers, and shorten links. Finished all non-Concordance pages, and Concordance pages A - J.
November 7, 2007: Added cover images to Introduction and "What to Read First" sections. Corrected more links.
November 6, 2007: Discovered that we cannot use relative links, altho we can leave the root directory off the absolute links. Began correcting relative links.
November 5, 2007: Began revising pages to use headers & footers, and to change absolute links to relative links.
November 4, 2007: Added paragraphs to the Introduction page, explaining the purpose of this website and providing an overview of the different eras of Known Space.
October 31, 2007: Added Fleet of Worlds to Bibliography, including Table of Contents.
October 25, 2007: Interior IKSC links have reappeared; apparently Freewebs.com finished their upgrade.
October 22, 2007: Updated timeline to include Fleet of Worlds, and remove references to that book being "forthcoming". All interior IKSC links are apparently still broken.
October 7, 2007: Freewebs.com is updating their website, and all the interior links in the IKSC are broken!
September 1, 2007: Revised Concordance pages "P" through "Z" with the new dating information. FIRST PHASE COMPLETED. Hooray!
August 31, 2007: Revised Concordance pages "H" through "O" with the new dating information. Revised footnote format.
August 30, 2007: Revised Concordance pages "B" through "G", and the Editorial Notes pages, with the new dating information.
August 29, 2007: Moved Editorial Notes from Concordance sections "P" through "Z", plus all Story Summary pages. Confirmed via private correspondence with Edward M. Lerner that the timeline in the published edition of Fleet of Worlds is the same as that in the advanced copy. Revised Timeline with dating information from that advanced copy. Revised Concordance page "A" and the Articles section with that information.
August 28, 2007: Moved Editorial Notes from Concordance sections "C" through "O". Revised bottom of Concordance pages to add Dawn Patrol link.
August 27, 2007: Added pages for Editorial Notes. Moved Editorial Notes from Concordance sections "A" - "B".
August 26, 2007: Added links to "Story Summaries—Part V", "Part VI" and "Part VII" pages.
August 25, 2007: Added links to "Story Summaries—Part III" and "Part IV" pages.
August 21, 2007: Added links to "Story Summaries—Part I" and "Part II" pages.
August 19, 2007: Moved table of contents for "Story Summaries" to Index page. Split "Summary" section in to seven pages. Each page was given double-column format and each story an illustration.
August 17, 2007: Revised "X-Y-Z" Concordance section and added links.
August 16, 2007: Revised "W" Concordance section and added links.
August 15, 2007: Revised "T" and "U-V" Concordance sections and added links. Received permission from Larry Niven to use certain illustrations from The Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld. Added five illustrations to various pages.
August 14, 2007: Revised "S" Concordance section and added links.
August 12, 2007: Revised "Q-R" Concordance section and added links.
August 11, 2007: Revised all ancillary sections, revising font and header sizes and changing to double column format. "Ancillary" = all sections other than Concordance entries and Story Summaries.
August 9, 2007: Revised "P" Concordance section and added links. Received permission from Bonnie Dalzell to use some of her illustrations. Added those and a couple more to completed pages.
August 7, 2007: Revised font and header sizes for all sections.
June 28, 2007: Revised "N-O" Concordance section and added links.
June 26, 2007: Revised "M" Concordance section and added links.
June 26, 2007: Revised "M" Concordance section and added links. Per William Warren, Steve Sloan's GP hull files are corrupted and unusable.
June 22, 2007: Scanner working for the first time. Added some new pictures to revised pages.
June 18, 2007: Revised "L" Concordance section and added links.
June 18, 2007: Received permission from Michael Blum to use his illustrations from the Ringworld Roleplaying Game.
June 16, 2007: Revised "K" Concordance section and added links. Received permission from Steve Sloan to post his GP hull renderings.
June 15, 2007: Revised "H" and "I-J" Concordance sections and added links.
June 14, 2007: Revised "G" Concordance section and added links.
June 12, 2007: Revised "F" Concordance section and added links. Instituted double column display on revised pages.
June 10, 2007: Revised "D-E" Concordance section and added links.
June 8, 2007: Revised "C" Concordance section and added links.
June 7, 2007: Revised "B" Concordance section and added links.
June 5, 2007: Revised "A" Concordance section and added links.
June 3, 2007: Added Andy Love's "Study Guide for 'Neutron Star'" to the "Articles" section.
June 2, 2007: Separated out the Concordance entries into different pages by letter: 1-9 & A, B, C, D-E, F, G, H, I-J, K, L, M, N-O, P, Q-R, S, T, U-V, W, X-Y-Z.
May 14, 2007: Added the "'So You Think You Know Known Space' Quiz" to the "Fun Stuff" section.
May 11, 2007: Added the "Niven's Ringworld" filksong to the "Fun Stuff" section.
May 9, 2007: Revised "Ringworld and the Hero's Journey" and added it to the "Articles" section.
May 8, 2007: Put up first sections of Concordance entries and Chronicle Summaries. Added "Links" section. Added "Fun Stuff" section and put up "The Known Space Chronicles in Six Words". Received permission to post "Non-Alien Kzinti Sketch" and added to "Fun Stuff" section. Added "List of Indexed Chronicles & Articles" section.
May 7, 2007: Started "Articles" section with "Dating Notes for 'The Ethics of Madness' and A Gift from Earth"; started "Fun Stuff" section with "The Known Space Chronicles in Six Words".
May 6, 2007: Completed "Bibliography" section
May 2, 2007: Completed "Intro" section, "Using the Concordance" section, and "What to Read First" section
May 1, 2007: Created Lying Bastard graphic pointer
April 30, 2007: Completed design for website's front page
April 27, 2007: Received permission from Larry Niven to post the Concordance to the Internet
