Product Description

Ringworld: the most stunning artifact in known space, an articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area. Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstasy), the aged Kzin warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of mad Nessus, return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. IN the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's incredible secrets...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86335 in Books
• Published on: 1982-08-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 365 pages

Review
'His tales have pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master!' Frederik Pohl

About the Author
Larry Niven is the author of the Ringworld series, winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and many other science fiction novels. He lives in California. For more information about Larry visit www.orbitbooks.net.

Customer Reviews

An exellent book that deserves to be a bestseller
The Ringworld engineers is a fantastic book in evey sense of th word. The plot keeps you gripped to the edge of your seat, the characters are imaginative and well designed and the technical details of the Ringworld itself are impressive to eveyone who understands suspension bridges. Larry Niven, I congragulate you on your writing skills!

Don't smile at a Kzin
Ringworld is just too Tanj big not to go back to! Louis Wu and Chmee (formerly Speaker to Animals) are kidnapped by the ousted Hindmost Pupateer to help it find some left over super technology which will put the Hindmost back in charge. Only trouble is not only does it not exist but Ringworld has developed a wobble and is about to crash into the sun, only little Wu and the wookie look-a-like can save trillions of inhabitants, but first they have to save themselves from the betrayed Hindmost and the Pak Protectors who built the Ringworld.

Good space opera stuff, let down by a weak plot that seems to leave the characters wandering around a lot.

The best of the best
This is the sequel to Ringworld. It is an absolute must to read. One of the best books I have read.
This is truly vintage Larry Niven and one of the reasons he's so popular.