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Ringworld (1971)

Name: Ringworld (1971)
Author: Niven, Larry

One of the most famous books of the genre, that follows the pros and cons of living on a spinning ring instead of a round planet. The fact that makes this book so famous is that after the author’s ideas were proven impracticable, he wrote a sequel explaining the inadequacies.

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In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a gigantic artificial ring circling a distant star, a structure of impossible size that no one understands.

Louis, Nessus, a warlike Kzin and a young woman chosen for her extraordinary luck set out to explore it. When their ship is wrecked on the ring's surface, they have to cross a world a million times the size of the Earth to find a way home.

A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic of Known Space.

About the author

Niven, Larry

Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven

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