Ringworld [Paperback]

In Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The centre of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles across and 600 million miles in circumference that is home to some 30 trillion diverse inhabitants. As in his past novels, Niven's characters in The Ringworld Throne spend their time unravelling the complex problems posed by their society.

¿The most energetic future history ever written¿ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Ringworld is the most stunning artifact in known space - an artificial world with 3 million times Earth's surface area.

Larry Niven was born in California in 1938 and studied mathematics at Washburn University, Kansas. His first published science-fiction story was ¿The Coldest Place¿ in 1964 and he immediately established himself as a significant figure in the science-fiction world, winning four Hugos for short fiction. Ringworld is the most important novel in his future history, Tales of Known Space sequence. He has also collaborated, most notably with Jerry Pournelle on The Mote in God¿s Eye, Oath of Fealty, Inferno, Lucifer¿s Hammer and Footfall. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.