Ringworld

by Larry Niven

mass market paperback

English language

Published Feb. 12, 1981 by Del Rey.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-29301-5

(18 reviews)

The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subsequent sequels: 1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The Ringworld Throne 2004: Ringworld's Children The core series was developed with three side series of prequels set in the same Ringworld universe, and written in collaboration: 1988–2009: Man-Kzin Wars (by various edited by Niven) 2007–2010: Fleet of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner) 2010-2011: Juggler of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)

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Elise reviewed Ringworld by Larry Niven (Ringworld (1))

File this under "good books with big flaws that you probably shouldn't read."

2 stars

I grew up as a massive Halo fan, and it was awesome to see where Bungie drew the inspiration for their setting, realized in dreamlike prose. The joy of reading is greatly diminished by Niven's overwhelming misogyny, and some more subtle but just as uncomfortable underpinnings as well (referring way too many times to the ringworld natives as "savages", privileging "civilization" over "primitiveness", and, perhaps less importantly but just as upsetting to me, seeing deserts as barren wastelands without life instead of biomes unto their own.) Glad I read it myself. Can't reccomend.