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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780345333926 ISBN: 0345333926 Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 12, 1985 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: September 12, 1985 Studio: Del Rey Editorial Review: Product Description: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again! Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Two stars for the idea onlyI should have known when the used copies were only a penny, but I persisted. Hey, this thing won a Hugo and a Nebula, right? Well the idea of the ringworld is interesting. The science of doing it is interesting. Everything else is boring. I'm a huge sci-fi fan and I normally will get sucked into a book and not do anything until I finish the book... not so with Ringworld. It was dull, the characters were entirely unbelievable, poorly described, I found myself not caring about them at ... Read More Rating:  - Probably the best novel that is pure Niven."Ringworld" certainly has a few very big subjects. I think it is probably the best novel that is pure Niven. Larry does a good job here. Perhaps the problem is that Niven picks subjects here that are too big. Let me see . . . The entire milky way is about to be blasted by radiation started from black holes that are swallowing the center of the galaxy. Then, there is the Ringworld, which is so large that one cannot comprehend how large it really is. (I am sorry. If I go for a walk, I might ... Read More Rating:  - Ring world is solid entertaining readingThis is the first of the ring world series of books, and all of them are entertaining and fun to read as a whole set. These are stay up all night reading books good, with compelling characters, an excellent story line, and an awesome plot to go along with it that unfolds over the book and subsequent books in the series. This first book covers the discovery of the Ring World by Louis Wu, Speaker to Animals, and the puppeteer Nessus. While the puppeteer does what they always do (which is leave much of ... Read More Rating: - One of the Ten Quadrillion Wonders of the Universe!There is a reason why the Pierson's Puppeteers are very interested in this strange "ring" around a distant sun, over the very horizon of "known space" (known to humans). A mystery that is not normally of interest to the more commerce and not at all adventurous Puppeteers who are more interested in trade and perpetual compounding of wealth. The mystery is what is happening at the core of the galaxy, and the Puppeteers immediate response to something that would take almost 30,000 ... Read More Rating:  - Dull dull and dullI did not choose to read this book; a client is reading it, and I need to keep pace. I figured it won a Hugo so how bad could it be? I would never have guessed. Other posts have really said it all: the characters are cardboard and so is the dialogue. Often I could not tell (even after re-reading) who was speaking, but - honestly - it did not make the slightest difference. As for the plot - there was none. A "puppeteer" - a creature with two heads not seen by human in many years - chooses ... Read More |
