Science Fiction · EpicIn 2850, a mission travels to an enormous artificial ring around a sunlike star
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
An expedition to a ring-shaped world around a star
Ballantine Books published the first edition as a paperback in October 1970. It is set in Larry Niven's Known Space universe in 2850 AD. A mission goes to the Ringworld, an enormous artificial ring encircling a sunlike star, to determine whether it poses a threat to a migrating alien species. The main characters are Louis Wu, Nessus, Speaker-to-Animals and Teela Brown. The first edition has 342 pages.
More about this book
Who
Louis Wu, Nessus, Speaker-to-Animals and Teela Brown.
World
The Ringworld, an artificial ring around a sunlike star, in the year 2850.
What makes it different
It won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Locus Award. In the first paperback printing the opening has Louis Wu teleporting eastward, which Niven corrected to westward in later printings.
Feel
Big and curious.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- RingworldWikipedia