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Ringworld

Ringworld #1 / 4
by Larry Niven
Ringworld (Ringworld #1) by Larry Niven
  ★ 7.76 / 21
1★2★3★14★15★56★7★78★29★510★
Hugo Award 1971, Nebula Award 1970, Locus Award 1971.

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

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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Category: Science Fiction, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Hugo Award
Release date: 1970

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Larry Niven

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (Laurence van Cott Niven) is an American science fiction author. He was born 1938. His best known novel is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar and Nebula awards.

Ringworld

Ringworld consists of four primary books, and includes six additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Main series Tales of Known Space

Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
  ★ 7.76 / 21
The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld #2)
  ★ 7.28 / 7
The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld #3)
  ★ 7.66 / 3
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
  ★ 8.34 / 3
The Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (Ringworld)
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Fleet of Worlds (Ringworld)
  ★ 8.50 / 4
Juggler of Worlds (Ringworld)
  ★ 8.00 / 2
Destroyer of Worlds (Ringworld)
  ★ 8.00 / 2
Betrayer of Worlds (Ringworld)
  ★ 8.00 / 2
Fate of Worlds (Ringworld)
  ★ 8.50 / 2


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