Editing Larry Niven (section)

== Politics ==
According to author [[Michael Moorcock]], in 1967, Niven, despite being a staunch [[American conservatism|conservative]], voiced [[opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War|opposition]] to the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html |title=Starship Stormtroopers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021224193414/http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html |archive-date=December 24, 2002 }}</ref> However, in 1968 Niven signed an advertisement in ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'' in support for continued US involvement in the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm |title=Nat Tilander Writer, Author, Articles, Non-Fiction, Galaxy Magazine and the Viet Nam War |publisher=Natsmusic.net |access-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-date=January 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128164242/http://www.natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="vietnamads">{{Cite magazine |date=June 1968 |title=Paid Advertisement |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction |pages=4–11}}</ref>

Niven was an adviser to [[Ronald Reagan]] on the creation of the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] antimissile policy, as part of the [[Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy]]—as covered in the [[BBC]] documentary ''[[Pandora's Box (British TV series)|Pandora's Box]]'' by [[Adam Curtis]].<ref>[[Pandora's Box (British TV series)#Part 2. 'To The Brink of Eternity']]</ref>

In 2007, Niven, in conjunction with a think tank of science fiction writers known as SIGMA, founded and led by [[Arlan Andrews]], began advising the U.S. [[Department of Homeland Security]] as to future trends affecting terror policy and other topics.<ref>{{cite news | first=Mimi | last=Hall | title=Sci-fi writers join war on terror | date=May 31, 2007 | url=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-05-29-deviant-thinkers-security_N.htm | work=USA Today | access-date=April 30, 2008 | archive-date=April 29, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429233433/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-05-29-deviant-thinkers-security_N.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> Among those topics was reducing costs for hospitals to which Niven offered the solution to spread rumors in Latino communities that organs were being harvested illegally in hospitals.<ref>{{cite web | title=Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice | url=https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2008/2/29/2008march-science-fiction-mavens-offer-far-out-homeland-security-advice | work=National Defense Magazine | last=Magnuson | first=Stew | date=January 3, 2008 | accessdate=June 27, 2021 | archive-date=April 15, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415064609/https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2008/2/29/2008march-science-fiction-mavens-offer-far-out-homeland-security-advice | url-status=live }}</ref>