- Paperback: 382 pages
- Publisher: Orbit; New edition edition (3 July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857234707
- ISBN-13: 978-1857234701
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 286,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Third in Niven's famous Ringworld series (The Ringworld Engineers, not reviewed), set on a colossal space habitat that forms a complete ring, 600 million miles in circumference, around its sun, and comes complete with cleverly engineered days and nights, seasons, oceans, mountains, and what-all. Earth explorer Louis Wu has been trying to evade the surveillance of the Hindmost, a manipulative alien puppeteer who, despite his advanced technology, is trapped on the Ringworld. Nevertheless, the Hindmost observes everything that occurs, especially - in the first (intriguing but largely irrelevant) section - how a motley band of assorted humanoids somehow pool their talents to wipe out a bothersome nest of Vampires. In the second section, exciting but very hard to follow, the Hindmost notes with interest that a powerful Someone seems obsessed with protecting and maintaining the Ringworld. And soon both Louis and the Hindmost are being controlled by a protector, Brain, a Vampire transformed by a virus and a particular diet into a superbeing. Neither is Brain alone - and the problem is that protectors of different species instinctively fight to protect their own species' genes. Someone, however, must take control of the Ringworld to ensure its survival. . . . Notably schizophrenic and confusing but inventive enough that Ringworld admirers will surely wish to investigate. (Kirkus Reviews)
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In this sequel to "Ringworld" and "Ringworld Engineers", the ring is still home to many alien species. The last Puppeteer is still manipulating those he can, and Louis Wu must meet even more new challenges and solve more technological problems in order for the hominid species to survive.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointing.,
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This review is from: The Ringworld Throne (Paperback)
This is a book of two halves, The first half barely merits 1 star, its got too many characters with poor characterization, few new ideas and poor plot which is nearly irrelevant to 2nd half. It also appears to contradict and undo some of the previous book. The 2nd half is slightly better, if only because it returns to some of the more interesting ideas in the earlier books. It still has a poor and over complicated plot which is difficult to follow due to the large number of characters.Niven could have probably written a far more interesting sequel if he had concentrated on the invasion and defence of Ringworld.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
don't ring us...,
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This review is from: The Ringworld Throne (Mass Market Paperback)
Larry Niven (in my humble opinion) is one of the premier writers of science fiction, up there with the Heinliens and Clarkes of the SF world. His ideas are without parallel and the "known space" franchise is one of the best imagined and constructed since Tolkien created middle earth. On the down side, he has a habit of writing in a fashion that keeps readers at arms-length and makes them feel as they they are constantly missing important directions to plot and character development. Nowhere is this more apparent than in "the ringworld throne". Even after 300 pages, I was still left wondering where the story was going and what it's focus was. This book is a real disappointment after the ultra-brilliant "ringworld" and it's worthy successor "the ringworld engineers". It's lack of direction and "in the know" writing style still leaves me frustrated and unfulfilled even after having read it several times. Read the first two books and stop there is my advice.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother,
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This review is from: The Ringworld Throne (Paperback)
Definitely the third best of the "Ringworld" books. A potboiler cashing in on the merited success of its predecessors. Too long, repetitive, too many characters, but no charaterisation. If you have trouble sleeping, buy this.
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