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Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden Age

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Ringworld by Larry Niven

Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
Larry Niven was born in California in 1938 and studied mathematics at Washburn University, Kansas. His first published science-fiction story was ¿The Coldest Place¿ in 1964 and he immediately established himself as a significant figure in the science-fiction world, winning four Hugos for short fiction. Ringworld is the most important novel in his future history, Tales of Known Space sequence. He has also collaborated, most notably with Jerry Pournelle on The Mote in God¿s Eye, Oath of Fealty, Inferno, Lucifer¿s Hammer and Footfall.
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ISBN 13 9780575077027
ISBN 10 0575077026
Title Ringworld
Author Larry Niven
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2005-06-09
Number of pages 288
Prizes Winner of Nebula Award 1971 (UK)
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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