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RINGWORLD PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Larry Niven | 288 pages | 30 Mar 2009 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575077027 | English | London, United Kingdom Ringworld PDF Book Then they crash-land on the surface. Nov 24, Kemper rated it it was ok Shelves: space , aliens , sci-fi. The book concludes with Louis and Speaker discussing returning to the Ringworld. View 2 comments. If such a structure were built it could indeed provide a huge habitable inner surface, but the energy required to construct it and set it rotating is so significant several centuries' worth of the total energy output from the Sun that without as-yet unimagined energy sources becoming available, it is hard to see how this construction could ever be possible in a time frame acceptable to humans. Why two stars? This is not particularly noticeable on Earth, but if you were at the sun, it would take eight and a half minutes for a signal to reach you, which would make a phonecall rather awkward. View all 8 comments. Louis threads it through the ship to tether it to the police station. Original Title. Part Two was released on November 10, He names one of his creatures the frumious bandersnatch. I know he got the Hugo for the Ringworld concept, because nothing else in the book conceivably justifies it. In response to all those that say that Niven should be excused for essentially being an old man August Start your review of Ringworld Ringworld, 1. I'll read it. Man Kzin Wars has like 15 books. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. I find Niven alone to be far superior to the Niven-Pournelle collaborations that came later. It was showered with awards but i would have showered it with something else. At times, however, Larry Niven, resembles P. Scrith , usually written italicized as scrith , forms the walls and floor of the Ringworld. Sci-fi author Larry Niven conjured up such a megastructure for his award- winning book Ringworld. As far as the sexism go Larry Niven takes a lot of shit. The Ringworld itself is a monumental sci-fi creation. It moves along at a quick pace, uncovering a few intergalactic political mysteries on the way, but we don't get a very solid conclusion at the end, so I must assume it's more of a lead-in to the next book in the series. Ringworld Writer Louis felt pain in his throat. But I said it got worse. Scrith , usually written italicized as scrith , forms the walls and floor of the Ringworld. There are things to give the asocial and undersexed hope for the future when apparently women will be dumber than a box of rocks but very very easy, and men will have to have constant companionship be constantly getting their rocks off with these dumber than a box of rocks women or else they might start raping aliens yes this is mentioned twice at least, the main character will need a companion or he might rape an alien. Which, as I mentioned above, is why Niven eventually had to cave into pressure to write a sequel. The current population density of humans on the Earth is It's not a bad exploration of these now-familiar tropes, even after all the intervening time. Where it falls down for me is the story and the characters. Also, the Orbitals of Iain M. The woman I found rather annoying, in part because she reminded me of the type of girl I usually avoided at parties: someone who had been pretty and well-off her entire life and hence, never had the need to develop a personality. That's the way I refer to his incredibly chauvinistic depictions of women. Selected Science Fiction Portrayals: Besides those featured in Niven's novels, similar but smaller structures, called Halos, appear in the Halo video game and media franchise. May 03, Flink rated it it was ok. I've read some criticism about whether or not Niven is sexist because he doesn't create very well rounded female characters. Details if other :. OK, enough of the irrelevant opening. This novel is all about ideas. Speaker: My ability to procreate is not in question Michael Dorn could not have delivered that line better. I compared this to Arthur C. Science Fiction. Louis himself, near the very end of the book, reflects on the fact that the Ringworld is so vast as to support a great diversity of cultures. The parts of Ringworld between the squares would experience roving daylight, while the eclipsed portions would rest in the shade. Nessus the puppeteer rounds up three other crewmates haphazardly in order to explore Ringworld for unclear reasons. There are much better writers out there with much more fluent beautiful prose and deeper characters that in Ringworld, but there was something that just felt right,comforting, and genuinely fun in Ringworld. Why else would a woman be on a spaceship? Bungie Sightings. It would be even worse at the next closest star, Proxima Centauri, where messages take four years. The interaction between them is what really made me enjoy this book more than anything. The main characters are well-defined, so that by the midway point I could probably have guessed who was speaking without dialogue tags. But it's the journey, not the destination, right? His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. Cables would link these plates and, in time, the plates would be pulled together to form a ring. Ringworld 1 , Known Space. Let the parent sun have mass M. I really enjoyed this, but I kno "Read Ringworld! As a result, she has almost zero free will, because nearly all her actions result from chance. Ringworld Reviews Now, place the sun at dr along the x-axis a small perturbation in the plane o If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. At times, however, Larry Niven, resembles P. Community Reviews. View all 6 comments. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition due to the longevity drug boosterspice. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I am starting to see a pattern that perhaps I wasn't aware of before, of older science fiction having very limited charterer depth and focusing more on the using the plot to explore scientific ideas. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in The crew managed to enter the Ringworld, but some of them were killed and others suffered brain damage when the device that let them pass through the Ringworld floor failed. The protagonists have nonexistent emotional ranges, and when they do emote each always in the same way, since all four are completely one-dimensional , the reader is told through adverbs and adjectives exactly how they feel how many times is "fear" used in reference to Nessus, for example , eliminating any sense of complexity. Maybe I even read it when I attended Hammocks Middle School and went across the street to the library almost every afternoon during my golden age of reading, and I simply forgot after all the decades of hard drugs, booze, sex, and rock and roll. It rotates, providing an artificial gravity equivalent to If you are an SF fan and have never been to the Ringworld, try and visit them some time! The inner surface could be sculpted like Earth's surface—full of great though shallow oceans, soaring mountains, and prodigious farmland—or whatever its builders desired. Other science fiction authors have devised their own variants of Niven's Ringworld, notably Iain M. Yes, there are wonders here. Energy could be beamed via laser from the squares to receiver stations along the Ringworld's rim, away from inhabited "land. Altogether an enjoyable, unpretentious read, and it's not hard to see why it became influential in the genre. They are trapped in the basement of a floating police station. Vinge This point gave Niven some difficulty after he published his first Ringworld novel; he was deluged with letters pointing out that "the Ringworld isn't stable" and dedicated the first sequel to a resolution of this problem. Speaker's outrage forces Nessus to flee and follow them from a safe distance. I really enjoyed this, but I know some people have complained about it's humorous side. It moves along at a quick pace, uncovering a few intergalactic political mysteries on the way, but we don't get a very solid conclusion at the end, so I must assume it's more of a lead-in to the next book in the series. Specifically, I loved his sociological asides, such as Louis' speculations about how much Nessus and other Puppeteers have interfered with human and Kzinti development. Not that her character changed in a good way: she went from being oblivious eye candy for Louis to less-oblivious eye candy for another man. It's not so unimaginable that a species could contrive to turn its own planet into a spaceship, but wouldn't a species that balls up at the slightest provocation do just that when presented with armageddon itself? Visual representation of the bountiful depth of Ringworld Perhaps the most egregious flaw of the novel is the malignant plot tumor of Teela's luck. He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books. Alas, once the action is restricted to the Ringworld and the new goal is to discover any remaining pockets of Ringworld Engineer civilization, the only thing remarkable about the story is the alacrity with which it becomes unremarkable.