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Ringworld

Larry Niven author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:9th Jun '05

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Ringworld cover

'The most energetic future history ever written' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden AgePierson'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.

  • Winner of Nebula Award 1971 (UK)

ISBN: 9780575077027

Dimensions: 195mm x 132mm x 23mm

Weight: 270g

288 pages