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.