He avoids nearly all of the cliches of space-based science fiction. Niven is excellent at creating novel concepts. It is occasionally insightful, but is primarily a romp through a novel and creative universe. The party’s expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory.įirst the bad news: The book is not world altering, life changing, deep, or otherwise valuable. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known. Speaker-to-Animals, kzin-large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane. Nessus, puppeteer-a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. Louis Wu, human-old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore it: Pierson’s puppeteers-strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens-discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center.
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.
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