The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive…A rousing adventure.” - AudioFile “ captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. I challenge you to read it without feeling awestruck.” - Guardian (London) “Larry Niven’s 1970 Hugo Award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past fifty years…It’s clear that Ringworld hasn’t just become a cultural staple because it’s a good idea: its inspirational power comes from Niven’s success in bringing it to life. A war threatens to destroy Ringworld, and a rejuvenated Louis Wu is instrumental in assisting the new generation of Ringworld residents in developing a solution. "This is the third book in the Ringworld series, and brings the series to a satisfactory conclusion. The party’s expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known. Speaker-to-Animals, kzin-large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane. Nessus, puppeteer-a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. Louis Wu, human-old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it.
Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore it:
Pierson’s puppeteers-strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens-discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy.
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center.
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