The image is as powerful as anything in science fiction: an artificial, constructed world—a spinning ring orbiting a star at an incredible speed, its dimensions measured not in the thousands of miles (as Earth and its sister planets are) but in the millions and billions of miles. The inner surface o...
Ringworld is definitely a sci-fi classic, a monumental achievement in world building. Any sci-fi aficionados who don’t like it should be ashamed of themselves.Argh! It’s never pleasant to go against the conventional wisdom but over at PrintSF (online SF discussion community) I see a lot of comments ...
Re-read in 2014 of a novel I read on the 1980’s.Ringworld was still an enjoyable read after picking it up again after 25 years. The action as described along with the science being detailed make this a book that all SF fans should read at least once. Characterization does not really seem to be one o...
Re-read in 2014 of a novel I read on the 1980’s.Ringworld was still an enjoyable read after picking it up again after 25 years. The action as described along with the science being detailed make this a book that all SF fans should read at least once. Characterization does not really seem to be one o...
Ringworld is apparently one of those fundamental scifi classics that everyone should read. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about such "fundamental" stories, "classics," or, for that matter, the genre of scifi. However, when I found Ringworld on audio, I decided to do my readerly duty, suck it up,...
The ideas were worth reading, but the writing wasn't to my liking. The characters were empty and unlikeable and there wasn't much to the plot. The Ringworld is a nice concept and by no means do I regret reading this book, it just wasn't entertaining enough for me.
This was a fun, smooth read, with an unobtrusive style, appealing characters and a unique landscape. The point-of-view protagonist, Louis Wu, is a human with three intriguing companions: a woman who might be a lucky charm, a "puppeteer," a member of a "cowardly" herbivore species, and a Kzin, a memb...
There were a lot of ideas in this book: multiple alien races, genetic luck, boosterspice to extend human life, and not to mention a giant Ringworld with a collapsed civilization...but everything is scratched on the surface. The majority of the story is Louis, Nessus, Teela, and Speaker traveling acr...
On balance, I do like Ringworld, or at least the concept of the ringworld. The idea is that a forgotten race of wildly talented engineers have built a complete ring around a star and outfitted it with gravity, atmosphere, vegetation, animals, and even sentient life. The scale is so vast that it's ne...
Crossposted at Bibliosanctum.Tempted by an alien from a race of equine-like aliens known as the puppeteers, Louis Wu, Teela Brown, and a kzin named Speaker-To-Animals head out to a world known as Ringworld, an earth like planet, a planet that is 300 million times bigger than the surface of earth, t...
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