![]() ![]() The party’s expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known. Speaker-to-Animals, kzin-large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane. Nessus, puppeteer-a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. 'Another fine masterpiece from a master of science fiction.The Ringworld itself is a dazzling notion, carrying the future evolution of technology about as far as possible. The Ringworld Engineers By Larry Niven Read by Richard Powers The Ringworld Series: Book 2 13.18 Hours 1 Format : Digital Download 22.95 or 1 Credit 12.99 With Membership: Learn More It’s been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. So, most of the characters time is spent musing over and explaining. Louis Wu, human-old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it. As mentioned in the forward and as shown by the story, this sequel to Ringworld seems to have mostly been written in order to fix scientific problems with the ringworld structure that were pointed out to the author over the years. ![]() Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore it: Pierson’s puppeteers-strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens-discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. ![]() The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. ![]() Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |