Death by Ecstasy

Death by Ecstasy is a novella in the Known Space universe by Larry Niven. It is the first of five Gil Hamilton detective stories, and provides most of the backstory for the character.

A belter, Owen Jennison, is found dead on Earth in a locked Los Angeles apartment. His death is an apparent suicide. Hamilton, a friend and former crewmate of Jennison, is called to the scene to investigate. He finds Owen with a droud (a wirehead's transformer) plugged into the back of his head. The latter apparently starved himself to death while continuously stimulating the pleasure center of his own brain.

Hamilton, refusing to believe that his friend would commit suicide or turn wirehead, suspects foul play.

References

Death by Ecstasy: Illustrated Adaptation of the Larry Niven Novella

Bill Spangler, Terry Tidwell, Steve Stiles - Fiction - 1991 - 76 pages ISBN 978-1-56398-004-6

Bibliography by Larry Niven

Known Space

World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968) Protector (1973) Tales of Known Space (1975) Flatlander (1976) The Patchwork Girl (1986) Crashlander (1994)

Ringworld	Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1979) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars¹	Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003)

Fleet of Worlds²	Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010) Fate of Worlds (2012)

The Magic Goes Away

Written with
Jerry Pournelle

Inferno (1976) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) Oath of Fealty (1982) Footfall (1985) Escape from Hell (2009)

Moties³	The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993)

Heorot⁴	The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995) Destiny's Road (1997)

Dream Park⁴

Dream Park (1981)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)

The State

Co-authored novels

Other collections

All the Myriad Ways (1971)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Convergent Series (1979)
Limits (1985)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Scatterbrain (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Stars and Gods (2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Short stories

Essays

Collections by Niven or others
With Edward M. Lerner
Set in the CoDominium series
With Steven Barnes

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