Larry Niven
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
From the mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Niven, come twenty-six tales and vignettes from this interplanetary gathering place, collected for the first time in one volume.
When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few...
2) Ringworld
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Nebula Award Winners for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
Nebula Award Winners for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
Description
Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies.
Author
Series
Ringworld series volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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 the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies...