Ringworld
Sign in to saveRingworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in
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- Author
- Larry Niven
- First published
- 1970
- Editions
- 49
- 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
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- Paperback first edition
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- Larry Niven
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- Dean Ellis
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- United States
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- English
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- Ringworld storyline from Known Space
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- Science fiction
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- Ballantine Books
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- October 1970
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- Print (hardcover, paperback), audiobook
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- 342 pages
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- Locus Award for Best Novel (1971)
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- 0-345-02046-4
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- The Ringworld Engineers, 1979
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- Gyűrűvilág
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- 1970-10-01
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Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970, as well as both the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971.
==Plot summary== On Earth in 2850 AD, a bored Louis Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition due to the longevity drug boosterspice. Nessus, a Pierson's puppeteer, offers him a mysterious job. Intrigued, Louis accepts. Nessus also recruits the Kzin Speaker-to-Animals and Teela Brown, a young human woman who becomes Louis's lover, for the rest of the ship's crew.