Ringworld Series by Larry Niven
Ringworld #1
Ringworld r-1
Larry Niven
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
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Ringworld #1
The Ringworld Engineers (ringworld)
Larry Niven
The sequel to “Ringworld”. Louis Wu, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. In the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld’s incredible secrets.
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Ringworld #3
The Ringworld Throne r-3
Larry Niven
In this sequel to “Ringworld” and “Ringworld Engineers,” the ring is still home to many alien species. The last Puppeteer is still manipulating those he can, and Louis Wu must meet even more new challenges and solve more technological problems in order for the hominid species to survive.
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Ringworld #4
Ringworld's Children r-4
Larry Niven
Ringworld’s Children returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson’s puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the brink of war. If fighting breaks out, the near-indestructible Ringworld will be destroyed: dissolved by antimatter weapons. The Ringworld series is so complex and ambitious that Ringworld’s Children opens with a glossary and a cast of characters, inclusions that even many Known Space fans will need. Newcomers to Niven’s artificial planet should start with Ringworld .
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