Niven fixes some engineering and ecological gaps that were left in the original, and expands greatly on the plot found in.The sequel to Ringworld, this has a better story.

A couple of stowaways come with him. Very recommended.Captain Kirk's alien love encounters - a fanfic.Louie Wu is addicted to the electrical current drilled into the pleasure center of his brain.

Niven is great in combining the can do spirit of classical SF with modern physics and has the imagination and knowledge to make up something like the titular Ringworld and people it with the most fantastic inhabitant.

It really took this 2nd book for me to grasp This is a bit of a game-changer. The sweeping adventure feel of the first book, a grand adventure back to the ringworld; a sad twist of fate for Louis Wu, now a junkie of sorts and so in need of such adventure more than ever.

It is the first of the sequels to the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel Ringworld , and has ties into numerous other books set in Known Space.

Sex, sex, sex. And I liked the ecologies of adapted humanoids, the battle againt the sun flowers and even the 'cold equations'-like dilemma at the end.
We learn more about the Ringworld and get a little deeper into the character Louis Wu. The Ringworld was such a great idea that it become the prison (so far) for the narrative and the characters, it's like all the imagination was confined to this construction and nothing could escaped its limits and premise. The Ringworld's builders, revealed to be,It is on the Map of Mars that the reunited party (and two natives) finds the Ringworld control room Louis is seeking, located in a vast maze of rooms in the hollow space under the map. It really makes me respect an author when I excitedly pick up a sequel anxious to catch up on the characters I have grown attached to, but then only to discover the author had very different plans than I … Almost like a triumphal 'fuck you and your preconceived notions'. This included a third read of.This book is an excellent squeal in that it answers almost every question that came to mind after people were done reading the first one.

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The first book may have taken certain things for granted that weren't sketched out fully enough for me to appreciate the nuances of characters, places, events, whereas I felt this book did a better job of introducing ideas from the background shared by the Known Space books.I had a lot of fun reading this book. The Ringworld is an artificial world with a surface area three million times larger than Earth's, built in the shape of a giant ring-shaped ribbon a million miles wide and with a diameter of 186 million miles. Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. After an elaborate plan Louis steals a machine he needs and some books. Inventing a culture that requires sex to seal business deals comes across as a contrived and needlessly lurid plot device. “ The Ringworld Engineers has all the imaginativeness, convincing detail, and narrative vivacity that have come to be associated with the works of Larry Niven. Where to begin?

The characters go on an adventure in which they explore, experience and come into conflict with a lot more people. With Louis’ help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary…
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. The Ringworld Engineers is a direct follow-up to Ringworld in which most of the protagonists from the original novel get roped into another expedition to the Ringworld. It is inhabited by a number of different evolved hominid species, as well as Bandersnatchi, Martians and Kzinti. Louis gets tricked into banging it. Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.