Part of the Ringworld series , book 1 Start here
Ringworld (1971)
by Niven, Larry
One of the most famous books of the genre, that follows the pros and cons of living on a spinning ring instead of a round planet. The fact that makes this book so famous is that after the author’s ideas were proven impracticable, he wrote a sequel explaining the inadequacies.
Opens Amazon in a new tab. We earn a commission at no cost to you.
About this book
In the year 2850, Louis Wu turns 200 and is bored with life. Then a two-headed alien Puppeteer called Nessus offers him a job: join a small expedition to a gigantic artificial ring circling a distant star, a structure of impossible size that no one understands.
Louis, Nessus, a warlike Kzin and a young woman chosen for her extraordinary luck set out to explore it. When their ship is wrecked on the ring's surface, they have to cross a world a million times the size of the Earth to find a way home.
A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic of Known Space.
About the author
Niven, Larry
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven
See all books by Niven, LarryReaders also enjoyed
The closest matches to Ringworld (1971). See all books like Ringworld (1971)
More in Ringworld
0 other books in this series See the whole series
Lists that feature this book
- Best Stand Alone Fantasy Books Most of the books listed on this website's top fantasy lists have been part of a series, either because of the financial incentive behind publishing multiple books in the same...
- Nebula Award Winners These speculative fiction books won Nebula awards -- one of the most prestigious speculative fiction awards given out every year to the best speculative fiction book.
The shortlist
Liked this one? New releases and the lists readers are opening most, by email.
Ringworld (1971)
Buy on Amazon