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Ringworld's Children returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson's puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the brink of war. If fighting breaks out, the near-indestructible Ringworld will be destroyed and dissolved by antimatter weapons.
The Ringworld series is so complex and ambitious that Ringworld's Children opens with a glossary and a cast of characters, inclusions that even many Known Space fans will need. Newcomers to Niven's artificial planet should start with Ringworld. --Cynthia Ward, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Totally believable ... one is impressed most by Niven's universe and the way he exploits vast spaces, dizzying mathematics, and huge units of time and matter' THE OBSERVER 'Larry Niven has ideas the size of planets' TIME OUT
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The ringworld and known space franchises are two of the best conceived ideas in the history of science fiction. "Ringworld" and "The Ringworld Engineers" are both a joy to read, whereas "The Ringworld Throne" is most definitely not. Fortunately, Larry Niven is back on form with the fourth (and possibly final?) ringworld book. "Ringworlds Children" continues louis wu's adventures aboard the enormous artificial ringworld and also fills in plenty of missing gaps about it's builders, the pak protectors - mankind's forefathers. The ringworld is under threat from other space-faring species, who all want to harvest the technology on offer without consideration for the effect on the billions of mankind-evolved inhabitants. Louis joins forces with the ghoul-people protector tunesmith and a newly-discovered protector, the only surviving member of the original pak who built the ringworld. Niven brings his incredible imagination to bear on the story, which is told in a far easier and involving manner than "The Ringworld Throne", and delivers an astonishing finale which had me re-reading it to make sure I'd read it right! Larry Niven, when he's of a mind, can deliver a story of pure hard science fiction wonder, and this book is a worthy companion to the first two ringworld novels
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've been a great fan of Larry Niven's for 20 odd years. This is his best book in a while with a cracking narative that zips along without a dull moment. Much better than any of his recent joint efforts with Pournell et al. My only critiscism of the book is that the ending is a bit weak. It's as if the publishers said 'you can't do that to Louis Wu!'. The only explanation I can think of is that there's another sequel in the pipeline. Not a bad thing on the overall strength of this book.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After the poor 3rd book, Ringworld Throne, this new story is Niven at his best and offers an exciting conclusion (?) to the saga. Niven shows us his old talent of pushing the laws of Physics beyond reality yet making it all seem so believable.
The story kicks in without delay and moves like a rollercoaster, as Louis Wu tries to keep pace with the Protector he has created and save the Ringworld from the fleets of Known Space.
Being a fan of Known Space and the old Niven style, this book was a delight to me.
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Ringworld's Children
I thought this was going a bit slow at the beginning, but it soon got very interesting, won't spoil the ending.
Great story!!!!
Great story!!!!
Published 5 months ago by stevieboy
A return to form
This is to my mind the novel Ringworld Throne should have been.
The Fringe War - the constant jockeying for position between Humans, Kzin and others to exploit the... Read more
The Fringe War - the constant jockeying for position between Humans, Kzin and others to exploit the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by D. J. Ketchin
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an excellent continuation of a really good theme - expanding on and clearing up a lot of ideas, while also moving the story forward - only half way through though, as I'm reading... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Dr John Smith
Requires patience and knowledge of what's gone before.
I personally loved this book and am a Niven fan but for the uninitiated it will prove incomprehensible and messy. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Richard Mann
Louis Wu Rides again..
Excellent fourth book in the Ringworld saga. So much better than the dire "Ringworld Throne". This has the pace and mind-blowing scale of the first two books. Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by NerveJam
A disapointment
I have been a Larry Niven fan since..., well forever. At one time I'd buy it simply because his name was on the cover. I loved ringworld. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2009 by Mr. N. J. Keighley
Ringworld's Children
This is, just like the original Ringworld and its successors, a fast-paced story with several kinds of aliens and near-humans. If you know Ringword, you'll know what to expect. Read more
Published on 5 April 2009 by Dr. Jack Cohen
Fantastic vision / flat characters
As other reviewers have stated this book provides the 4th installment of the Ringworld sequence and is certainly better than the 3rd part. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2007 by Frazer Pearce
A confusing finale
The ringworld series started with good, easily read SF but I found this book difficult with too many plot lines. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2006 by G. Laird
The final installment of the Ringworld cycle
Ringworld's Children was spellbinding for me. From the first page, the action moves at a blinding pace. Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2005 by Andrew
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