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Ringworld's Children | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 57333
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0765341026
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765341020
ASIN: 0765341026
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
Larry Niven may be America's greatest living hard-SF writer. Much of his SF belongs to his famous future history, the Tales of Known Space. His preeminent creation is the Ringworld: an immense, artificial, ring-shaped planet that circles a Known Space star. Possibly SF's greatest feat of world-building, the Ringworld is featured in four novels: the Hugo and Nebula Award winner Ringworld (1970); The Ringworld Engineers (1980); The Ringworld Throne (1996); and Ringworld's Children (2004). 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: 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
Product Description
Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself.Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld's Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld.
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 Ringworld's Children January 18, 2008
Gerald W. Goegelein (Arizona)
Larry Niven has a wonderful series --- Ringworld --- and this is another excellent addition to that. It is a touch dated in some aspects, but not much and is as enjoyable today as when written. I recomend it to science fiction fans.
 Ringworld's Children June 29, 2007
James R. Lohr (Arlington, WA USA)
Comepletes the story began in Ringworld Throne, these two stories are not Niven's best work but are worth a "read." The stories move a little too slow for my tastes but there is multiple character development to enliven them.
 Only slightly better than Throne February 25, 2007
Jonathan C. Pike (Canton, MA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not quite the crapfest that was book 3 in the Ringworld series, but still a gigantic disappointment coming from Niven. Children is plagued by the same things that made the previous novel so unbearable: flat, uninteresting characters, ridiculous names, obsession over interspecies sex for no reason other than to include sex in the story, and overall a poorly written plot. To be fair, I didn't come out of this one as bewildered as after Ringworld Throne - don't even ask me to summarize THAT plot, I've yet to come across a decent one myself, mostly because trying to figure it out can cause lasting brain damage. But even so, this novel is nowhere near the original Ringworld novel, or even Engineers for that matter. Avoid if possible.
 Not his best, but definitely worth the journey... February 6, 2007
Whit Gurley (San Francisco)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didn't see the disjointedness that some other reviewers are claiming, I felt the book had a healthy, mostly linear pathway from beginning to end. I wouldn't place it with my favorite Niven books, but I definitely enjoyed it and felt the ending made a great finale to the Ringworld story (assuming that's what it is).
Niven is great! January 16, 2007
Moonstarr (Arizona)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My husband has read this whole series, and he really loves all the books. Ringworld is an amazing setting, and the stories are awesome. This is one of his favorite series, and we both recommend it!
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