Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a team of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eight-foot red-fur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at center. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long trek. Calc Series A (group): Ringworld Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB, ZAB ABook : Have Title First Parm : Ringworld EBook : Have Calc ESI Part 3 : 04 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 01 Enter Series Index : 01 of 04 Calc Series Group : Ringworld Title Post Pound : Ringworld Words in Author Name: 2 Previous Series Index: 1 Test Text Series Index: 1 Raw Title : Ringworld Title Length : 9 Title Parm A : Ringworld Record ID : 227 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_AnE.Ringworld.Scifan.01 of 04..ICBF Author Parm Cn : Niven ES Name : Ringworld Calc Genre : Ringworld Calc New Series : Ringworld.... Series Parm B : 1 Series Parm A : Ringworld Test Search : Ringworld / Larry Niven Number of Formats : 1 Title Pre Pound : Ringworld Words in Title : 1 Whole Title : Ringworld Title Suffix : Ringworld Uncomma Author : Larry Niven ES Genre : Scifan Compare Author : eq ES Group : Serified_AnE Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Calc ESI Combined : 01 of 190 Quick Search : Larry Niven Ringworld Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : ff:n/larry-niven/ringworld, goodreads:61179, isbn:9780575077027 Single Author : Larry Niven Sorted Author by LN, FN: Niven, Larry Num of Aut : 1 ES Cover Quality : ICBF Title Pre Parend : Ringworld Author Parm A : Larry Niven The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subsequent sequels: 1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The Ringworld Throne 2004: Ringworld's Children The core series was developed with three side series of prequels set in the same Ringworld universe, and written in collaboration: 1988–2009: Man-Kzin Wars (by various edited by Niven) 2007–2010: Fleet of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner) 2010-2011: Juggler of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner) 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. The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld. In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality. Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden Age