# Ringworld

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- Book: [Ringworld](https://www.bookquiver.com/larry-niven/ringworld) ([Ringworld.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/larry-niven/ringworld.md))
- Authors: [Larry Niven](https://www.bookquiver.com/larry-niven)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7507-702-7
- Published: 2005-06-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Magnificent' James Blish 'Niven has ideas the size of planets' Time Out Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.