Ringworld - Hardcover

Niven, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575013303 ISBN 13: 9780575013308

Publisher: Gollancz, 1972

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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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: Gollancz
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0575013303
• ISBN 13: 9780575013308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288