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14 Hours • Unabridged Come Back to the Ringworld—The
READ BY PAUL MICHAEL GARCIA Come back to the Ringworld—the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written. The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld, vampires are massing, and the Ghouls have their own agenda—if anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld throne? “Readers who remember Ringworld from earlier encounters will no doubt relish the latest installment of the saga.” —New York Times Book Review LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula award–winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf’s Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California. PAUL MICHAEL GARCIA, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer. Running Time: 14 Hours • Unabridged 2011 by BLACKSTONE AUDIO, INC. / © 1996 by Larry Niven Published by arrangement with Spectrum Literary Agency AUDIO, INC.
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