title: A Hole in Space
text: # A Hole in Space
  
  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"
  * "Bigger Than Worlds" (essay)
  * "$16,940.00"
  * "The Hole Man"
  * "The Fourth Profession"
  
  ## Explanatory footnotes
  
  * ↑ 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." (2) Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixth: "There is a tide in the affairs of women,/Which, taken at the flood, leads – God knows where."
  