Ringworld

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Larry Niven

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novelFour travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world.Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy.Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?

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Author

Larry Niven

Pages

352

Publisher

Random House Worlds

Published Date

1985-09-12

ISBN

0345333926 9780345333926

Ratings

Google: 4

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"Would have been cooler without the sexism"

Winslow

"I read this book and was shocked by Niven's romanticization of sex slavery, literally selling women, and apologism for characters who engaged in eugenics and literal racial extermination.<br/>I decided to look this guy up and found this quote from Wikipedia that will tell you everything you need to know. <br/>"In 2007, Niven, in conjunction with a think tank of science fiction writers known as Sigma [...] began advising the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as to future trends affecting terror policy and other topics. Among those topics was reducing costs for hospitals to which Niven offered the solution to spread rumors in Latino communities that organs were being harvested illegally in hospitals."<br/>He is unabashedly racist and sexist and his writing, while interesting from a world building perspective, is otherwise vomit inducing and cringey in the extreme."