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Ringworld
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| Author: |
Larry Niven |
| Publisher: |
Ballantine Books, 1970 |
| Series: | The Ringworld Series: Book 1 |
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1. Ringworld |
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| Awards: |
1970 Nebula Winner 1971 Hugo Winner 1971 Locus SF Winner |
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SF Masterworks The ISFDB Top 100 Books (Balanced List) Locus Best SF Novels of All-Time |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Space Exploration Terraforming Hard SF |
| Member Rating: |
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Synopsis
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
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- Ringworld is a lot like Lost, but there's a crucial difference
Larry Niven's Hugo-winning novel from 1971 has a surprising amount in common with network television's biggest sci-fi hit. But what's really interesting is how Ringworld differs from Lost. - Interactive guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld is the next best ...
Dennis Antinori's guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld teems with information about its specs, but that's not all. There's also the equivalent of Google maps for Ringworld — it even lets you zoom in on key locations. Awesome. - Visualisation of Larry Niven's Ringworld (spoilers) | MetaFilter
I liked the Ringworld concept, but the books were ruined for me by the totally unnecessary rishathra scenes that kept popping up. All I can think of whenever Ringworld gets mentioned is Larry Niven hunched over a typewriter, ... - Cookies, Books and Bikes: Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Ringworld is huge and there are these two guys, one is a human and the other is some alien called a Puppeteer. There is also a character called Speaks-to-Animals and a women named Teela Brown who is the luckiest women in the ... - Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven « Golden Age Of Science ...
Ringworld's Children is the fourth entry in Larry Niven's Ringworld series, a subset of his “Known Space” future history. The Ringworld series began in 1970 with Niven's classic novel Ringworld, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, ... - The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Larry Niven is not a good writer, but he has a quite potent fantasy, so he is an all-right read. This book is a sequel to "Ringworld", seen in that light "The Ringworld Engineers" doesn't offer anything new. Larry Niven is a cult writer ... - Back to the Hugos: Ringworld by Larry Niven | Sam Jordison
Larry Niven's blend of wild imagination and hard science is positively intoxicating Larry Niven's 1970 Hugo award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past 50 years. ... - Back to the Hugos: Ringworld by Larry Niven – The Guardian (blog)
Back to the Hugos: Ringworld by Larry Niven The Guardian (blog) Larry Niven's 1970 Hugo award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past 50 years. ... - Violins and Starships » Blog Archive » 100 Science Fiction Books
Nova Express – William S. Burroughs Ringworld – Larry Niven - I liked the concept of the Ringworld better than I liked the story. The Mote in God's Eye – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Unreasoning Mask – Philip Jose Farmer ... - Novedades
Ringworld's Children, by Larry Niven. Ringworld's Children returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson's puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector ...
