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Ringworld (Hardcover)

by Larry Niven (Author) "In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality ..." (more)
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Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies. Tom Parker captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive. Although this is a rousing adventure, some listeners may experience difficulty visualizing the alien settings. M.A.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.


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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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5.0 out of 5 stars I, too, found "Ringworld" a truly ingenious series, Jun 16 2004
By Eric (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ringworld (Mass Market Paperback)
Just the pure scientific thought that went behind the so-called construction of this massive ring about a lesser-magnitude star is absolutely incredible, even without the storyline and characters! I definitely place this series up there with many other sci-fi works, both old and new: "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Puppet Masters", "Foundation", "2001", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", all the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" books, as well as books as new to the genre as "Advent of the Corps" and others.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute genius!, Jun 15 2004
This review is from: Ringworld (Mass Market Paperback)
I rank Larry Niven up there with the other great science-fiction authors. His "Ringworld" books adding themselves to works by other such sci-fi masters: "Childhood's End", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Stranger in a Strange Land" as well as the more modern cyberpunk works like "Neuromancer", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "Snow Crash", "Prey", and "Cyber Hunter". All are must-reads for any hardcore science-fiction and cyberpunk collector.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A classic example of "high-concept" science fiction, Jun 13 2004
By debeehr "debeehr" (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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The great thing about Ringworld is--you guessed it--the ringworld. The concepts of a world that is a ring, the huge size of said world, and the problems such a world might have are interesting and creative concepts, worthy of science fiction at its best. Too bad the characters are all one-dimensional and shallow. Louis Wu is a non-entity. Teela is unbelievable and the concept behind her (her hereditary luck) falls apart when you consider the fact that, even if luck *were* hereditary in some capacity, there's no reason to assume that she would be lucky in anything but reproduction (thus the whole premise of her luck being godlike and all-powerful immediately falls apart). Speaker-to-Animals is not an integrated character; he demonstrates ferocity and reasonableness by turns when the plot demands him to, not as developed character traits. The puppeteer Nessus is perhaps the most interesting character and I would have liked to see more of the puppeteers. This book was also clearly written pre-feminism (notice Teela's instant and unquestioning acceptance of a life of female slavery with the Seeker, the fact that Teela's reason for inclusion is solely because she is lucky, not that she has a useful skill to offer; that Teela follows because she loves Louis, not out of curiosity or interest; the fact that the Kzin and the puppeteers are species with non-sentient females; Prillar as ship's (...); comments such as "Every woman is born with a tasp," and so on.) There are some interesting ideas here, and some cool concepts to play with, but it would be nice, just once, to run across a hard-core science fiction book that did as good a job developing the characters as the science.
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1.0 out of 5 stars What the heck was this?
I heard all kinds of good things about this book, so I decided to give it a try. Wow. The characters are somewhat thinner than cardboard, the writing is childlike, and very,... Read more
Published on Jun 3 2004 by barbre

2.0 out of 5 stars A complete waste of time...
This book is a fine example of the kind of scifi I don't like. It's completely nonsensical(is that a word?) and incoherent. Read more
Published on May 28 2004 by Dan Cox

5.0 out of 5 stars A true science-fiction masterpiece and series
The first time I read "Ringworld" was when I was in high school and I still own it and have read it, along with the rest of the series, several times. Read more
Published on Feb 17 2004 by Anthony

4.0 out of 5 stars Things that make you go hmm....
Some sci-fi stories make psychological and social exploration their dominant them, others focus on scientific/technological themes. Read more
Published on Jan 31 2004 by thejrl

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but I wanted more.
I liked this book a lot. Niven's aliens are some of the most creative I have ever encountered in s.f., particularly Nessus. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2003 by foneman

5.0 out of 5 stars A great classic
Ringworld is a marvellously inventive story - two humans and two Aliens, a cariverous, Cat-like kzin and a herbiverous puppeteer - set out to explore a vast world built in a ring... Read more
Published on Nov 24 2003 by Susan Norton

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Work of all time.
Ringworld is by far the best book I have ever read, that along with its sequel are my absolute favorite works from any author, throughout all time.

Insane? Maybe, Exadurate? Read more

Published on Sep 9 2003 by spoonx

4.0 out of 5 stars A science fiction classic...
which is very heavy on the "science" part of it.

Niven is a master of ideas: this novel alone touches on solutions to overpopulation, the possibility that luck is an inherited... Read more

Published on Aug 27 2003 by pdeconinck2

5.0 out of 5 stars Agreed
There are many types of literature I enjoy good story, clever plots, and interesting characters. Mr Niven has put them all into this book.

Thank You

Published on Aug 11 2003 by Glenn E. Graham

3.0 out of 5 stars Ringworld Blahs
I liked the book...honestly, I did. Yet, I find myslef not really all that impressed. The power of the story lies in the ideas it conveys. Read more
Published on Jul 19 2003 by Tommy Jeffers

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