Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, RINGWORLD remains a favorite among science fiction readers.

Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin – a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats -- are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Its origins are shrouded in mystery.

The adventures of Louis and his companions on the Ringworld are unforgettable . . .

“Larry Niven’s RINGWORLD remains one of the all-time classic travelogues of science fiction — a new and amazing world and fantastic companions.”
- Greg Bear

"If there isn't a Ringworld out there somewhere, we ought to build one someday. Until then we have Larry Niven's. A rich and fantastic story."
- Fred Saberhagen

"Our premier hard SF writer.”
- The Baltimore Sun

"The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can."
- Tom Clancy

"Niven is a true master."
- Frederik Pohl

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines. Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.

In 2015, Larry Niven received the Grand Master Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

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Publisher: Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc. (September 6, 2015)
Publication Date: September 6, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01513ZIL6
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Keith Snyder

Great story, bad ebook

April 29, 2017

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A classic of the genre for good reason, and a terrific story. But these ebooks were clearly never proofed. Missing punctuation throughout, as well as what seem to be entire missing sentences (or possibly paragraphs or scenes--there's no way to tell). I'm reading it to my kids, and I repeatedly have to stop, scan what I just read, and go, "Uh... I think there's something missing again here."

This publisher is apparently a "literary agency" that seems to specialize in putting backlists back in circulation in ebook form. In this case, the author could have done a better job himself.

For tanj sake, Spectrum, hire a proofer. If you show this little class and respect to a major title from a major name, I can't imagine what you do to smaller ones.

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Kiki Riley

Great book, unbearable editing!

November 1, 2015

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I have been in love the "Tales of Known Space" since I was a young girl. Niven actually built an entire world inside his stories, both large and small.

But after listening to the Audible version of this book, I could barely get through even the sample of the book because listening to the narrator was a lot like biting on aluminum foil, or sliding down Olympus Mons by your fingernails with a ground made of chalkboard. So I decided that I could forgo the spoken version in lieu of own imagination, as disappointing a choice this was.

However, I've never heard of this editing company before I saw this ebook, and, upon looking into it after being repeatedly insulted by such poor editorship, I looked online, on its "website," it honesty like it operates out of someone's basement.

The reason I removed a star from this book is because of the fact that this ebook has the worst editing I've ever seen in my life! As I looked at the photos of this Mickey Mouse operation, it shows two people at cheap desks, and it's hard not to think that that they might be relatives of Mr. Niven who who received a "gimme" because of their close family ties, as the site is so cheaply made that's it's easy to believe that these two -- a teenager and his "Mom" perhaps? -- because no professional company would ever release such printed drivel and expect to remain in operation in the world of print. I wonder why Tor was not the printing company...

The word "you" is the most battered, coming out as "yon," other words are either spelled incorrectly because of the normal location-based keyboard accidents, but for others, there simply is NO explanation for how any typist could have tapped most of these words into a line. And worst of all, some mistakes are SO incorrect that, unless you have a vocabulary that's extremely well versed in not just SciFi but in Known Space, you will likely end up not having the slightest idea what the writer is saying!

If you can find this book from any OTHER editing company, I suggest you do so!

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Trent Boggess

Kindle version needs an editor.

August 22, 2016

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I bought the Kindle edition of Ringworld Engineers because my original 1st edition hard cover is falling apart - I have read and re-read it too many times. But the Kindle version is full of spelling errors. It badly needs the attention of someone who knows the difference between "yon" and "you".

Still, The Ringworld Engineers is one of my favorites, maybe more than Ringworld itself. If you liked reading Ringworld, you will love The Ringworld Engineers.

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Ron Owens

An adventurous romp through believable improbability

November 30, 2017

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This is my second reading of Ringworld, my first being in the late 1970's. At that time I was a avid reader of all the sci fi I could get my hands on. And what a time it was! Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, and of course, Niven were all very active filling the shelves of my local library. It was silver age of science fiction, and all I needed was a library card.

Ringworld stood out as inventive, exciting and a natural page turner. Decades past and I found myself returning to my mission of reading sci fi with a renewed interest. After reading a number of new books I found myself skimming through titles of my old favorites from days gone by. Ringworld was my first choice with the full intention of reading the entire series. I was not disappointed.

Once again I was swept away to deep space riding along with old, familiar friends. I quickly found myself immersed in the adventure with a appitite I hadn't felt for a long time.

Ringworld is one of the most original stories I have ever read. A beautiful balance between fascinating characters and adventurous challenges. True story telling at it's best by one of the genre's greats.

The story takes place sufficiently far enough in the future to allow anything to exist or happen. This includes technology, aliens, and lifestyles. We are introduced in the first chapters to our characters of the crew for this extraordinary journey. Next we travel in exotic spacecraft, several different ones in fact, to parts unknown. The third act takes place at the Ringworld itself.

I highly recommend Ringworld to anyone that enjoys sci fi adventure. You won't be disappointed!

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J. Edgar Mihelic, MBA

Slow to develop, decent payoff

June 19, 2015

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I picked up a graphic novel adaptation of this several months ago.
The problem with that adaptation was that it was really only the first half of the book, and just when some action started, then the book ended.

So I had to get the book, because I wanted to know what happened.

And I read and enjoyed the book There is a quest to a mysterious world, and there is an interesting if maybe two-dimensional cast of characters. The problem for me was that it didn’t really get going for me until about page 200 of my edition. You could chalk that up to me having read a good bit of it already in graphic form, but the reality is that there is a lot of exposition done through a sort of “we’re getting the band back together” sport of way. I suppose when this was written it was more like a magnificient seven sort of way, but I digress.

So it does get going, there is some loss of characters you grow to like, and then it ends.

Not in a satisfying way, but one that seems like it was set up for sequels. The problem was that though the book was good in itself, I’m not sure if it was good enough to make me want to read more in the world. At least the exposition is out of the way.

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