Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Ringworld

Author:	Larry Niven
Publisher:	Gollancz, 2005 Ballantine Books, 1970
Series:	Known Space: Ringworld: Book 1
1. Ringworld 2. The Ringworld Engineers 3. The Ringworld Throne 4. Ringworld's Children
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Space Exploration Hard SF Terraforming
Awards:	1970 Nebula Winner 1971 Hugo Winner 1971 Locus SF Winner
Lists:	SF Masterworks The ISFDB Top 100 Books (Balanced List) Locus Best SF Novels of All-Time The Classics of Science Fiction Guardian: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels NPR: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List by David Brin WWEnd Top Listed Books WWEnd Most Read Books The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1970s
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Synopsis

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.