Limits
From the back cover:

LIMITS
Two aliens fascinated by Man's fondness for defining boundaries decide to make sure he doesn't get out of the habit.

THE LION IN HIS ATTIC
Seventy-six years after Atlantis drowned, a sorceress and a prince learn to their dismay that not all lions eat red meat.

TABLE MANNERS
When the proprietor of the Draco Tavern is invited to dine with some carnivorous etees, he brings along a xenobiologist to coach him in alien etiquette.  But he forgets that he is already outfitted with the oldest guide of all.

A TEARDROP FALLS
In his youth, Hilary Gage had fought men and studied the ravages of Berserkers.  As a machine, he terraformed planets and lay in wait...

YET ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL
At last, a solution to the problem of radioactive wastes that costs nothing and yields an immodest profit.
American Science fiction
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.

Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic.

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