Ringworld
A Novel
by Larry Niven
Should I read this?
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Space Exploration, Space Opera, and Science Fiction.
Pierson's puppeteers, threeleg twohead aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a team of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eightfoot redfur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at center. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long tre...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Space Exploration, Space Opera, and Science Fiction.
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