The story begins on Louis Wu’s 200th birthday party in 2850 CE, an event made possible by his consumption of boosterspice that keeps him relatively youthful. That adds up to a considerable achievement but doesn’t make up for the absence of character development and the abominable presentation of the story’s two female characters. The alien species Niven created are among the most interesting I’ve seen, and the adventure is well told and fairly satisfying. 30.The basic story about exploring a megastructure, a giant ringworld surrounding a star, is compelling, and the characters have to come up with one intriguing idea after another to get themselves out of near-fatal encounters. 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. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. 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. 9780575077027 Ringworld 30.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy /shop/books/fiction Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the.
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