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Ringworld

byLarry Niven

Genres: Science Fiction Space Exploration Hard Science Fiction

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy complex science fiction with rich world-building and character dynamics.

Topics Imaginary worldsSpace explorationAlien civilizationsInterstellar travelWar in spaceAdvanced technologyExtraterrestrial lifeGalactic civilizationsArtificial constructsCollaborative storytellingExploration of specific cultural traditionsSurvivalFriendship

MoodSuspenseful, Mysterious

RomanceMinor Subplot

ViolenceModerate

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.

Language

Published on

06/09/2005

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780575077027

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