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Ringworld
Larry Niven
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Description for Ringworld
Paperback. Return to the classical hard-science fiction of the kind popular in the Golden Age Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of ... Read more
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gateway
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
S.F. Masterworks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780575077027
SKU
V9780575077027
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About Larry Niven
Larry Niven was born in California in 1938 and studied mathematics at Washburn University, Kansas. His first published science-fiction story was ¿The Coldest Place¿ in 1964 and he immediately established himself as a significant figure in the science-fiction world, winning four Hugos for short fiction. Ringworld is the most important novel in his future history, Tales of Known Space sequence. ... Read more
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