Ringworld (A Del Rey book): A Novel - Softcover

Niven, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345333926 ISBN 13: 9780345333926

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 1991

Synopsis

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel

Four travelers come to the ringworld. . .

Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.

Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.

Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world.

Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy.

Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together?

And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?

About this title

Review:

In Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The centre of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles across and 600 million miles in circumference that is home to some 30 trillion diverse inhabitants. As in his past novels, Niven's characters in The Ringworld Throne spend their time unravelling the complex problems posed by their society.

Book Description:

'The most energetic future history ever written' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0345333926
• ISBN 13: 9780345333926
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352