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Ringworld
Ringworld
Author: Larry Niven
When first published some thirty years ago, Larry Niven's Ringworld not only captured the Hugo and Nebula awards, but the hearts and minds of science fiction fans worldwide. Melding hard science with a unique and brilliantly-imagined setting, each page of this innovative novel reveals a new wonder. — On a future Earth, Louis Wu is bored with ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739413012
ISBN-10: 0739413015
Publication Date: 8/1977
Pages: 313
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4.3 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 9
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One of the most imaginative writers creates one of the most imaginative worlds. The author says "I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between a Dyson Sphere and a planet. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius--one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. The thing is roomy enough: three million times the area of the EArth. It will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding."
Meet the Pierson's Puppeteers, the Kzinti, the Pak hominids--meet Louis Wu who has lived so long he thinks he is becoming bored----Boy is Louis in for a shock!
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I know nothing about sci-fi books. I have a box of them. Questions? ask me.


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