Product details
ISBN
9780575077027
Published
2005
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Weight
252 gr
Height
195 mm
Width
132 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author
Biographical note
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. He has also collaborated, most notably with Jerry Pournelle on The Mote in God¿s Eye, Oath of Fealty, Inferno, Lucifer¿s Hammer and Footfall.
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 the Ringworld's surface.
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Product details
ISBN
9780575077027
Published
2005
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Weight
252 gr
Height
195 mm
Width
132 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author