A Hole in Space (U.K. edition ISBN0-86007-853-1) 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 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."[1] (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."[2]