Story
On his 200th birthday, Louis Wu is recruited by an alien puppeteer, Nessus, for an expedition into deep space. The team also includes Speaker-to-Animals, a fierce cat-like alien, and Teela Brown, a human whose luck seems to matter more than expertise.
Their destination is Ringworld, a colossal artificial ring encircling a star with a habitable inner surface. The mission begins as an investigation into who built it and why, but the journey turns urgent when the crew crash-lands and must survive on the vast structure.
Stranded on Ringworld, the group travels across an environment of strange machines, ruins, and engineered wonders. As they explore, they uncover clues about the world’s creators, its failures, and the forces shaping both the Ringworld and their own mission.
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Details
- Authors
- Larry Niven
- First published
- 2005
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Classics, Space Opera, Fantasy, Space, Hugo Awards, Adventure
- Subjects
- Hugo Award Winner · award:hugo_award=1971 · award:hugo_award=novel · Fiction, science fiction, general · Ringworld (imaginary place), fiction · Fiction · Ringworld (Imaginary place) · Science fiction · Long Now Manual for Civilization · American Science fiction · award:nebula_award=novel · Science-fiction · Comic books, strips · Life on other planets · Imaginary wars and battles · Space warfare · Imaginary places · Cartoons and comics · Vie extraterrestre · Bandes dessinées · Guerres et batailles imaginaires · Romans, nouvelles · Guerre spatiale
- ISBN-13
- 9780575077027
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